a. [f. as if L. *expedientia EXPEDIENCY + -AL.] Of, pertaining to, or having regard to what is expedient.
1850. Kingsley, Raleigh, Misc. I. 65. A worldly expediential letter, appealing to low motives.
a. 1855. Hare, in F. Hall, Mod. Eng., viii. 316, note. An expediential policy.
1890. Sat. Rev., 12 April, 434/1. The expediential issues involved in the Home Rule question.
Hence Expedientially adv., in an expediential manner, as a matter of expediency.
1873. F. Hall, Mod. Eng., 39. We should never deviate, save expedientially, from established usage.
