They were based upon styles of handwriting which Aldus and his scholarly friends doubtless found more expeditious than the formal book-hands which had previously been in use.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
And may not bloodhounds be the most expeditious and fit?
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch
Though Jesus went unto his disciples, and, as an expeditious way, I suppose, of arriving with them, he would have passed by them, but they saw him, and supposing him to be a spirit, cried out.
"Theological Essays"
Charles Bradlaugh