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expeditate
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expeditate, v. t. [LL. expeditatus, p. p. of expeditare to expeditate; ex out + pes, pedis, foot.].
To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, to expeditate a dog that he may not chase deer. See also declaw. [1913 Webster]
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