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expedient (rare sense outside S.): speedy, expeditious John II. i. 60, 223, IV. ii. 268* “with all haste” (cf. “with the speediest expedition” Gent. I. iii. 37), R2 I. iv. 39, 2H6 III. i. 288, R3 I. ii. 217*. ∥ “Expeditious” occurs only once Tp. V. i. 315.