expeditive

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English

Etymology

From Middle French expéditif.

Adjective

expeditive (comparative more expeditive, superlative most expeditive)

  1. (obsolete) Performing with speed.
    • 1617, Francis Bacon, speech on taking seat in Chancery:
      But I mean not to purchase the praise of expeditive in that kind ; but as one that hath a feeling of my duty

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “expeditive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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