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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
dispatch \dispatch"\ ?; 224, v. t. imp.  p. p.
   dispatched; p. pr.  vb. n. dispatching. of.
   despeechier, f. d'ep^echer; prob. from pref. des- l.
   dis- + assumed ll. pedicare to place obstacles in the way,
   fr. l. pedica fetter, fr. pes, pedis, foot. see foot, and
   cf. impeach, despatch. written also despatch.
   1. to dispose of speedily, as business; to execute quickly;
      to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform.
      1913 webster

            ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we
            the business we have talked of.       --shak.
      1913 webster

            the harvest men . . . almost in one fair day
            dispatcheth all the harvest work.     --robynson
                                                  more's
                                                  utopia.
      1913 webster

   2. to rid; to free. obs.
      1913 webster

            i had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.
                                                  --udall.
      1913 webster

   3. to get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.
      1913 webster

            unless dispatched to the mansion house in the
            country . . . they perish among the lumber of
            garrets.                              --walpole.
      1913 webster

   4. to send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending
      off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special
      business, and implying haste.
      1913 webster

            even with the speediest expedition
            i will dispatch him to the emperor's cou??. --shak.
      1913 webster

   5. to send out of the world; to put to death.
      1913 webster

            the company shall stone them with stones, and
            dispatch them with their swords.      --ezek. xxiii.
                                                  47.

   syn: to expedite; hasten; speed; accelerate; perform;
        conclude; finish; slay; kill.
        1913 webster
see also:
dispatched dispatching foot impeach despatch despatch 


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