Bible Dictionaries
Expedition

Webster's Dictionary

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Prev Entry
Expediting

Next Entry
Expeditionary

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

Dictionaries
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Non Expedit
Webster Dictionary
• Expeditive
• Expedition
• Expediting
•   (only first 3 shown)
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Challenger Expedition
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Challenger Expedition
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Non Expedit

(1):

(n.) The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

(2):

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

(3):

(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.