Chapter Expansive to Expend of E by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. That which is expected or looked for.

Why our great expectation should be called
The seed of woman.

Milton.

3. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to happen; prospect of anything good to come, esp. of property or rank.

His magnificent expectations made him, in the opinion of the world, the best match in Europe.

Prescott.

By all men's eyes a youth of expectation.

Otway.

4. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event. Expectations are computed for or against the occurrence of the event.

5. (Med.) The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age.

Syn. — Anticipation; confidence; trust.

Expectative
(Ex*pect"a*tive) a. [Cf. F. expectatif.] Constituting an object of expectation; contingent.

Expectative grace, a mandate given by the pope or a prince appointing a successor to any benefice before it becomes vacant. Foxe.

Expectative
(Ex*pect"a*tive), n. [F. expectative, fr. expectatif expectant.] Something in expectation; esp., an expectative grace. Milman.

Expectedly
(Ex*pect"ed*ly), adv. In conformity with expectation. [R.] Walpole.

Expecter
(Ex*pect"er) n. One who expects.

Expectingly
(Ex*pect"ing*ly), adv. In a state of expectation.

Expective
(Ex*pect"ive) a. Expectative. [R.] Shipley.

Expectorant
(Ex*pec"to*rant) a. [L. expectorans, p. pr. of expectorare to drive from the breast: cf. F. expectorant.] (Med.) Tending to facilitate expectoration or to promote discharges of mucus, etc., from the lungs or throat. — n. An expectorant medicine.

Expectorate
(Ex*pec"to*rate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Expectorated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Expectorating ] [L. expecrorare to drive from the breast; ex out + pectus, pectiris, breast. See Pectoral.] To eject from the trachea or lungs; to discharge, as phlegm or other matter, by coughing, hawking, and spitting; to spit forth.

Expectorate
(Ex*pec"to*rate), v. i. To discharge matter from the lungs or throat by hawking and spitting; to spit.

Expectoration
(Ex*pec`to*ra"tion) n. [Cf. F. expectoration.]

1. The act of ejecting phlegm or mucus from the throat or lungs, by coughing, hawking, and spitting.

2. That which is expectorated, as phlegm or mucus.

Expectorative
(Ex*pec"to*ra*tive) a. & n. Same as Expectorant. Harvey.

Expede
(Ex*pede") v. t. To expedite; to hasten. [Obs.]