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Expediate vs Accelerate - What's the difference?

expediate | accelerate |

As adjectives the difference between expediate and accelerate

is that expediate is (obsolete) expeditious while accelerate is (rare) accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.

As verbs the difference between expediate and accelerate

is that expediate is or expediate can be (rare|historical) to injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting while accelerate is (label) to cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.

expediate

English

Etymology 1

See expedite, expeditious.

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) expeditious

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , thus "freeing the feet".

    Verb

    (expediat)
  • (rare, historical) To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.
  • * 1803 , William Taplin, The Sporting Dictionary and Rural Repository of General Information Upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field , Vernor and Hood, page 236,
    • EXPEDIATE'—is a term tran?mitted from one book to another by former writers, but is at pre?ent little u?ed in either theory or practice. It implies the cutting out the centrical ball of the foot of a dog, or ?uch claws as ?hall totally prevent his pur?uit of game. In earlier times, when the forest laws were more rigidly enforced, the owner of any dog not ' expediated , living within the di?tric?t, was liable to a fine for non-obedience.
  • * 1814 , Elizabeth Ogborne, The History of : From the Earliest Period to the Present Time , page 73,
    • Among other liberties, they were permitted to assart their lands in and many other places, and enclose them with a ditch and low hedge, that they might take of their woods at pleasure; to have the forfeiture of their own men; to hunt the fox, hare, and cat, in the forest; that their dogs should not be expediated †.
    † Expediating' dogs, according to the forest laws, signifies to cut out the ball of dogs' fore-feet; the mastiff is to have only the three claws of the fore-foot, on the right side, cut off next the skin, for the preservation of the king's game. Every one that keeps any great dog, not ' expediated , forfeits 3s. 4d. to the king.
  • * 1903 , William D. Drury, British Dogs, Their Points, Selection, and Show Preparation , C. Scribner's sons, page 16,
    • The statute, which prohibited all but a few privileged individuals from keeping Greyhounds or Spaniels, provided that farmers and substantial freeholders dwelling within the forests might keep Mastiffs for the defence of their houses within the same, provided such Mastiffs be expediated' according to the laws of the forest. This “' expediating ,” “hambling,” or “lawing,” as it was indifferently termed, was intended to maim the dog as to reduce to a minimum the chances of his chasing and seizing the deer, and the law enforced its being done after the following manner: “Three claws of the fore foot shall be cut off by the skin, by setting one of his fore feet upon a piece of wood 8 inches thick and 1 foot square, and with a mallet, setting a chisel of 2 inches broad upon the three claws of his fore feet, and at one blow cutting them clean off.”

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989

    accelerate

    English

    Verb

    (accelerat)
  • (label) To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of.
  • (label) To quicken the natural or ordinary progression or process of.
  • *{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Michael Sivak
    • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Will AC Put a Chill on the Global Energy Supply? , passage=Nevertheless, it is clear that the global energy demand for air-conditioning will grow substantially as nations become more affluent, with the consequences of climate change potentially accelerating the demand.}}
  • To cause a change of velocity.
  • (label) To hasten, as the occurrence of an event.
  • To enable a student to finish a course of study in less than normal time.
  • (label) To become faster; to begin to move more quickly.
  • (label) Grow; increase.
  • (label)

    • Synonyms

    * advance * dispatch * expedite * forward * further * hasten * quicken * speed up

    Antonyms

    * decelerate * retard

    Derived terms

    * accelerative * accelerator * accelerated motion * accelerating force

    Related terms

    * accelerando * accelerant * acceleration * accelerograph * accelerometer

    Adjective

  • (rare) Accelerated; quickened; hastened; hurried.
  • * 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems , Dialogue 2:
    • ... a general knowledg of the definition of motion, and of the distinction of natural and violent, even and accelerate , and the like, sufficing.

    References

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