They have dispatched with Pompey. --Shak.
2. Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved
comforts. --Milton.
3. The finishing up of a business; speedy performance, as of
business; prompt execution; diligence; haste.
Serious business, craving quick dispatch. --Shak.
To carry his scythe . . . with a sufficient dispatch
through a sufficient space. --Paley.
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]
{Dispatch boat}, a swift vessel for conveying dispatches; an
advice boat.
{Dispatch box}, a box for carrying dispatches; a box for
papers and other conveniences when traveling.
Syn: Haste; hurry; promptness; celerity; speed. See {Haste}.
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).
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.