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Expede

Postby Grogie » Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:24 am

To send out or issue officially(as a document etc,etc).
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Re: Expede

Postby Palewriter » Thu Oct 19, 2006 3:14 pm

To send out or issue officially(as a document etc,etc).
Sounds like another backformation from expedite, which is a backformation in its own right from expedition.

Per the OEtD:

Expedite

1471, from L. expeditus, pp. of expedire "make fit or ready, prepare," lit. "free the feet from fetters," hence "liberate from difficulties," from ex- "out" + *pedis "fetter, chain for the feet," related to pes (gen. pedis) "foot" (see foot). Cf. Gk. pede "fetter." Expedition (1430) was originally military, "the act of rapidly setting forth."

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Postby Bailey » Thu Oct 19, 2006 6:29 pm

and expedient is a back formation also?

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Postby Palewriter » Thu Oct 19, 2006 9:37 pm

and expedient is a back formation also?

mark has-no-idea Bailey
Not sure about that, but "expediate" is, I think.

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