Noun

(en noun)

To act of expediting something; prompt execution.

A military journey; an enterprise against some enemy or into enemy territory.

The quality of being expedite; speed, quickness.

* 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), :

one of them began to come nearer our boat than at first I expected; but I lay ready for him, for I had loaded my gun with all possible expedition […].

* 1749 , (Henry Fielding), Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 331:

*:he presently exerted his utmost agility, and with surprizing expedition ascended the hill.

*1979 , , Smiley's People , Folio Society 2010, p. 33:

*:The photographer had photographed, the doctor had certified life extinct, the pathologist had inspected the body in situ'' as a prelude to conducting his autopsy – all with an expedition quite contrary to the proper pace of things, merely in order to clear the way for the visiting ''irregular , as the Deputy Assistant Commissioner (Crime and Ops) had liked to call him.

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.

The body of persons making such excursion.

Noun

(en noun)

A readiness in performance; aptness at doing something; skill; facility; dexterity.

* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .

The sophist runs for conver to the darkness of what is not and attaches himself to it by some knack of his;

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A petty contrivance; a toy; a plaything; a knickknack.

Something performed, or to be done, requiring aptness and dexterity; a trick; a device.