Word Meanings - EXPEDITATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.

Related words: (words related to EXPEDITATE)

• EXPEDITATE
  To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• CHASER
  See STERN (more info) 1. One who or that which chases; a pursuer; a driver; a hunter.
• DEPRIVER
  One who, or that which, deprives.
• DEPRIVE
  1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
• CHASE
  1. To pursue for the purpose of killing or taking, as an enemy, or game; to hunt. We are those which chased you from the field. Shak. Philologists, who chase A panting syllable through time and place. Cowper. 2. To follow as if to catch; to pursue;
• PURCHASE
  purchacier, to pursue, to seek eagerly, F. pourchasser; OF. pour, 1. To pursue and obtain; to acquire by seeking; to gain, obtain, or acquire. Chaucer. That loves the thing he can not purchase. Spenser. Your accent is Something finer than you could
• ENCHASER
  One who enchases.
• ENCHASE
  relics, frame, case, the same word as caisse case. See 1st Case, and 1. To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn. Enchased with a wanton ivy
• YEAR'S PURCHASE
  The amount that is yielded by the annual income of property; -- used in expressing the value of a thing in the number of years required for its income to yield its purchase price, in reckoning the amount to be paid for annuities, etc.
• HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
  A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
• INCHASE
  See ENCHASE
• FRANK-CHASE
  The liberty or franchise of having a chase; free chase. Burrill.
• REPURCHASE
  To buy back or again; to regain by purchase. Sir M. Hale.
• PURCHASER
  One who acquires an estate in lands by his own act or agreement, or who takes or obtains an estate by any means other than by descent or inheritance. (more info) 1. One who purchases; one who acquires property for a consideration, generally of
• SUBPURCHASER
  A purchaser who buys from a purchaser; one who buys at second hand.
• RECHASE
  To chase again; to chase or drive back.