Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter E - Page 68

Expedition (n.) A sending forth or setting forth the execution of some object of consequence; progress.

Expedition (n.) 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.

Expeditionary (a.) Of or pertaining to an expedition; as, an expeditionary force.

Expeditionist (n.) One who goes upon an expedition. [R].

Expeditious (a.) Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger.

Expeditive (a.) Performing with speed.

Expelled (imp. & p. p.) of Expel

Expelling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expel

Expel (v. t.) To drive or force out from that within which anything is contained, inclosed, or situated; to eject; as to expel air from a bellows.

Expel (v. t.) To drive away from one's country; to banish.

Expel (v. t.) To cut off from further connection with an institution of learning, a society, and the like; as, to expel a student or member.

Expel (v. t.) To keep out, off, or away; to exclude.

Expel (v. t.) To discharge; to shoot.

Expellable (a.) Capable of being expelled or driven out.

Expeller (n.) One who, or that which, expels.

Expended (imp. & p. p.) of Expend

Expending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expend

Expend (v. t.) To lay out, apply, or employ in any way; to consume by use; to use up or distribute, either in payment or in donations; to spend; as, they expend money for food or in charity; to expend time labor, and thought; to expend hay in feeding cattle, oil in a lamp, water in mechanical operations.

Expend (v. i.) To be laid out, used, or consumed.

Expend (v. i.) To pay out or disburse money.

Expenitor (n.) A disburser; especially, one of the disbursers of taxes for the repair of sewers.

Expenditure (n.) The act of expending; a laying out, as of money; disbursement.

Expenditure (n.) That which is expended or paid out; expense.

Expense (n.) A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.

Expense (n.) That which is expended, laid out, or consumed; cost; outlay; charge; -- sometimes with the notion of loss or damage to those on whom the expense falls; as, the expenses of war; an expense of time.

Expense (n.) Loss.

Expensefull (a.) Full of expense; costly; chargeable.

Expenseless (a.) Without cost or expense.

Expensive (a.) Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.

Expensive (a.) Free in expending; very liberal; especially, in a bad scene; extravagant; lavish.

Experience (n.) Trial, as a test or experiment.

Experience (n.) The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.

Experience (n.) An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.

Experienced (imp. & p. p.) of Exrerience

Experiencing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Exrerience

Exrerience (v. t.) To make practical acquaintance with; to try personally; to prove by use or trial; to have trial of; to have the lot or fortune of; to have befall one; to be affected by; to feel; as, to experience pain or pleasure; to experience poverty; to experience a change of views.

Exrerience (v. t.) To exercise; to train by practice.

Experienced (p. p. & a.) Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.

Experiencer (n.) One who experiences.

Experiencer (n.) An experimenter.

Experient (a.) Experienced.

Experiential (a.) Derived from, or pertaining to, experience.

Experientialism (n.) The doctrine that experience, either that ourselves or of others, is the test or criterion of general knowledge; -- opposed to intuitionists.

Experientiallist (n.) One who accepts the doctrine of experientialism. Also used adjectively.

Experiment (n.) Atrial or special observation, made to confirm or disprove something doubtful; esp., one under conditions determined by the experimenter; an act or operation undertaken in order to discover some unknown principle or effect, or to test, establish, or illustrate some suggest or known truth; practical test; poof.

Experiment (n.) Experience.

Experimented (imp. & p. p.) of Experiment

Experinenting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Experiment

Experiment (v. t.) To make experiment; to operate by test or trial; -- often with on, upon, or in, referring to the subject of an experiment; with, referring to the instrument; and by, referring to the means; as, to experiment upon electricity; he experimented in plowing with ponies, or by steam power.

Experiment (v. t.) To try; to know, perceive, or prove, by trial experience.

Experimental (a.) Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher.

Experimental (a.) Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.

Experimetalist (n.) One who makes experiments; an experimenter.

Experimentalize (v. i.) To make experiments (upon); to experiment.

Experimentally (adv.) By experiment; by experience or trial.

Experimentarian (a.) Relying on experiment or experience.

Experimentarian (n.) One who relies on experiment or experience.

Experimentation (n.) The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.

Experimentative (a.) Experimental; of the nature of experiment.

Experimentator (n.) An experimenter.

Experimenter (n.) One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments.

Experimentist (n.) An experimenter.

Experrection (n.) A waking up or arousing.

Expert (a.) Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.

Expert (n.) An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.

Expert (n.) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.

Expert (n.) A sworn appraiser.

Expert (v. t.) To experience.

Expertly (adv.) In a skillful or dexterous manner; adroitly; with readiness and accuracy.

Expertness (n.) Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.

Expetible (a.) Worthy of being wished for; desirable.

Expiable (a.) Capable of being expiated or atoned for; as, an expiable offense; expiable guilt.

Expiated (imp. & p. p.) of Expiate

Expiating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Expiate

Expiate (v. t.) To extinguish the guilt of by sufferance of penalty or some equivalent; to make complete satisfaction for; to atone for; to make amends for; to make expiation for; as, to expiate a crime, a guilt, or sin.

Expiate (v. t.) To purify with sacred rites.

Expiate (a.) Terminated.

Expiation (n.) The act of making satisfaction or atonement for any crime or fault; the extinguishing of guilt by suffering or penalty.

Expiation (n.) The means by which reparation or atonement for crimes or sins is made; an expiatory sacrifice or offering; an atonement.

Expiation (n.) An act by which the treats of prodigies were averted among the ancient heathen.

Expiatist (n.) An expiator.

Expiator (n.) One who makes expiation or atonement.

Expiatorious (a.) Of an expiatory nature; expiatory.

Expiatory (a.) Having power, or intended, to make expiation; atoning; as, an expiatory sacrifice.

Expilation (n.) The act of expilating or stripping off; plunder; pillage.

Expilator (n.) One who pillages; a plunderer; a pillager.

Expirable (a.) That may expire; capable of being brought to an end.

Expirant (n.) One who expires or is expiring.

Expiration (n.) The act of expiring

Expiration (n.) The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to inspiration.

Expiration (n.) Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.

Expiration (n.) The last emission of breath; death.

Expiration (n.) A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.

Expiration (n.) That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

Expiratory (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the expiration or emission of air from the lungs; as, the expiratory muscles.

Expired (imp. & p. p.) of Expire

Expiring (p. pr & vb. n.) of Expire

Expire (v. t.) To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

Expire (v. t.) To give forth insensibly or gently, as a fluid or vapor; to emit in minute particles; to exhale; as, the earth expires a damp vapor; plants expire odors.

Expire (v. t.) To emit; to give out.

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