Dispatch /(?; 224)/

imp. & p. p. Dispatched; p. pr. & vb. n. Dispatching

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.

   [The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work.

2. To rid; to free. [Obs.]

   I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.

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.

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.

5. To send out of the world; to put to death.

   The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords.

1. To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.

   They have dispatched with Pompey.

1. The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
2. Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.

   To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts.

3. The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.

   Serious business, craving quick dispatch.

   To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch through a sufficient space.

4. A message dispatched or sent with speed; especially, an important official letter sent from one public officer to another; -- often used in the plural; as, a messenger has arrived with dispatches for the American minister; naval or military dispatches.
5. A message transmitted by telegraph. [Modern]