expediate

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Latin (ex-, pes, pedis (“foot”)); compare excoriate. ==== Verb ==== expediate (third-person singular simple present expediates, present participle expediating, simple past and past participle expediated) (rare, historical, transitive) To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting. ==== See also ==== lawe === Etymology 2 === See expedite and expeditious. ==== Adjective ==== expediate (comparative more expediate, superlative most expediate) (obsolete) Expeditious. ==== Verb ==== expediate Misconstruction of expedite. === References === John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “expediate”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.