Expediate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Expediate is a verb meaning Misconstruction of expedite.
Meaning
Misconstruction of expedite.
More Meanings
- (rare, historical, transitive) To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.
- (obsolete) Expeditious.
Example Sentences
EXPEDIATE—is a term tranſmitted from one book to another by former writers, but is at preſent little uſed in either theory or practice. It implies the cutting out the centrical ball of the foot of a dog, or ſuch claws as ſhall totally prevent his purſuit of game. In earlier times, when the forest laws were more rigidly enforced, the owner of any dog not expediated, living within the diſtrict, was liable to a fine for non-obedience.
Word Forms
- expediates
- expediating
- expediated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include expeditate, hamble, lawe, eliminate, declaw, dispatch.
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