The Collaborative International Dictionary
Expediate
Expediate \Ex*pe"di*ate\, v. t. [Cf. F. exp['e]dier. See
Expedite.]
To hasten; to expedite. [Obs.] ``To expediate their
business.''
--Sir E. Sandys.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
expediate
a 17c. error for expedite that has gotten into the dictionaries.
Wiktionary
expediate
Etymology 1
(context obsolete English) expeditious v
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(misconstruction of expedite English) Etymology 2
vb. (context rare historical English) To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.