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 couShak.
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.
DISPATCH
Dis*patch", v. i.
Defn: To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of
business.
They have dispatched with Pompey. Shak.
DISPATCH Dis*patch", n. Etym: [Cf. OF. despeche, F. dépêche. See Dispatch, v. t.] [Written also despatch.]
1. The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.