EXPE'DIENCE EXPE'DIENCY, noun [See Speed, Expedient and Expedite.] 1. Fitness or suitableness to effect some good end or the purpose intended; propriety under the particular circumstances of a case. The practicability of a measure is often obvious, when the expedience of it is questionable. 2. Expedition; adventure. [Not now used.] 3. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Not now use.]
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