Expedition, 1) haste, dispatch: Gentl. I, 3, 37. III, 1, 164. Wint. I, 2, 458. H4B IV, 3, 37. R3 IV, 3, 54. Tim. V, 2, 3. Mcb. II, 3, 116. Used as the name of a ship: Err. IV, 3, 38.
2) march of an army: “before your e. to Shrewsbury,” H4B I, 2, 116. “let us deliver our puissance into the hand of God, putting it straight in e.” H5 II, 2, 191. “who intercepts my e.?” R3 IV, 4, 136 (Ff me in my e.). “bending their e. toward Philippi,” Caes. IV, 3, 170.
3) warlike enterprise: John I, 49. II, 79. H4A I, 3, 150. IV, 3, 19. H4B I, 2, 249. H5 I, 2, 301. H6A IV, 4, 2. H6A IV, 4, 2 Cor. II, 1, 169. Oth. I, 3, 229.
4) any enterprise implying a change of place: Gentl. I, 3, 77. V, 1, 6.
Misapplied by Fluellen: H5 III, 2, 82.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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