expediate means to injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Etymology
From Latin (ex-, pes, pedis (“foot”)); compare excoriate.
verb
- To injure (a dog) by cutting away the pads of the forefeet, thereby preventing it from hunting.“EXPEDIATE—is a term tranſmitted from one book to another by former writers, but is at preſent little uſed in either theory or practice. It implies the cutting out the centrical ball of the foot of a dog, or ſuch claws as ſhall totally prevent his purſuit of game. In earlier times, when the forest laws were more rigidly enforced, the owner of any dog not expediated, living within the diſtrict, was ”