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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Expedition

Ex′pe·di′tion (ĕks′pē·dĭsh′ŭn), n. [L. expeditio: cf.F. expédition.] 1. The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

With winged expedition

Swift as the lightning glance. Milton

2. A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

Putting it straight in expedition. Shak

3. An important enterprise, implying a change of place; especially, a warlike enterprise; a march or a voyage with martial intentions; an excursion by a body of persons for a valuable end; as, a military, naval, exploring, or scientific expedition; also, the body of persons making such excursion.

The expedition miserably failed. Prescott.

Narrative of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains. J. C. Fremont.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.