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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dispatch \Dis*patch"\ (?; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dispatched}; p. pr & vb n. {Dispatching}.] [OF. despeechier F. d['e]p[^e]cher; 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. Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of --Shak. [The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work --Robynson (More's Utopia). 2. To rid; to free [Obs.] I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge. --Udall. 3. To get rid of by sending off to send away hastily. Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the country . . . they perish among the lumber of garrets. --Walpole. 4. To send off or away -- particularly applied to sending off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special business, and implying haste. Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch him to the emperor's cou??. --Shak. 5. To send out of the world; to put to death. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dispatched adj : sent off or away "the dispatched messenger was has hardly out of sight before she wished call him back"
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