1. Breathed out, emitted from the lungs, etc.
1794. J. Hutton, Philos. Light, etc. 301. Heat … expended … for heating the expired atmosphere.
1833. Sir C. Bell, Hand (ed. 3), 237. In speaking there is … required a certain force of expired air.
1876. M. Foster, Physiol., II. ii. (1879), 307. The temperature of expired air is variable.
2. Of a person or animal: That has breathed the last breath, dead. Of a fire: Extinct. Of a law: That has reached its term; obsolete. Of a date or period: Completed.
1622. Callis, Stat. Sewers (1647), 71. A Law expired in time, though it hath lost his vigor and force, yet it is like a vertuous man deceased.
1631. Heywood, Eng. Eliz. (1641), 184. The bones of those which had been long since expired.
1647. Beaum. & Fletcher’s Wks., Ded. Ep. The then expired sweet Swan of Avon Shakespeare.
1648. H. G., trans. Balzac’s Prince, 104. The Greatnesse and Majestie of the expired Common-Wealth.
1671. H. M., trans. Erasm. Colloq., 246. The expired period of ages hath not yet brought that fatal day.
1674. J. B[rian], Harv. Home, ii. 5. Soon or late, We clasp our Earth in Lifes expired date.
1823. Lamb, Elia, Ser. I. xxii. (1865), 171. The expired … kitchen fires.
1875. Lyell, Princ. Geol., II. III. xliv. 515. In recently expired animals.
