\Ex*pe"di*ence\, Expediency \Ex*pe"di*en*cy\,, n.
1. The quality of being expedient or advantageous; fitness or
   suitableness to effect a purpose intended; adaptedness to
   self-interest; desirableness; advantage; advisability; --
   sometimes contradistinguished from moral rectitude.
         Divine wisdom discovers no expediency in vice.
                                               --Cogan.
         To determine concerning the expedience of action.
                                               --Sharp.
         Much declamation may be heard in the present day
         against expediency, as if it were not the proper
         object of a deliberative assembly, and as if it were
         only pursued by the unprincipled.     --Whately.
2. Expedition; haste; dispatch. [Obs.]
         Making hither with all due expedience. --Shak.
3. An expedition; enterprise; adventure. [Obs.]
         Forwarding this dear expedience.      --Shak.