[ad. med.L. expedīment-um (sense 2), f. expedīre: see EXPEDITE.]
† 1. A means of getting out of a difficulty; an expedient. Obs.
1547–64. Bauldwin, Mor. Philos. (Palfr.), III. iii. When they be chafed in reasoning … solutions … similitudes, and expediments, doe … flow vnto their remembrance.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. (1686), III. ix. 106. A like expediment to remove discontent is good company.
2. ‘The whole of a person’s goods and chattels, bag and baggage’ (Wharton, Law Lex., 1848).
