expede

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  1. To despatch; expedite. [Now only Scotch.] When any see was vacant, a writ was issued out of the chancery for seising on all the temporalities of the bishop-rick, and then the king recommended one to the Pope, upon which his bulls were expeded at Rome. Bp. Burnet, Hist. Reformation, i.
  2. To expede letters in Scots law, to write out the principal writ and get it signed, sealed, or otherwise completed.

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  1. = Dutch expediëren = German expediren = Danish expedere = Swedish expediera, from Old French expedier, French expédier, despatch (from Middle Latin as if *expeditare, freq.), = Spanish Portuguese expedir = Italian espedire, spedire, despatch, from Latin expedire, expedite, orig. free the feet, as from a snare, hence disengage, despatch, etc., impersonal be serviceable or expedient, from ex, out, + pes (ped-) = English foot. Cf. impede, despatch, depeach, impeach. Also expedite; hence (from Latin expedire) expedient, expedite, etc.
 

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