Crossword clues for despatch
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispatch \Dis*patch"\, n. [Cf. OF. despeche, F. d['e]p[^e]che. See Dispatch, v. t.] [Written also despatch.]
The act of sending a message or messenger in haste or on important business.
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Any sending away; dismissal; riddance.
To the utter dispatch of all their most beloved comforts.
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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. 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.
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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.
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.]
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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.
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To rid; to free. [Obs.]
I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.
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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.
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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??.
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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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
18c. variant of dispatch (q.v.), apparently the result of an error in the printing of Johnson's dictionary.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of dispatch English) (see also Wikipedia's http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/Mentioned_in_Despatches) v
(alternative form of dispatch English)
WordNet
n. an official report (usually sent in haste) [syn: dispatch, communique]
the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch" [syn: dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness]
killing a person or animal [syn: dispatch]
v. send away towards a designated goal [syn: dispatch, send off]
Wikipedia
Despatch may refer to:
Usage examples of "despatch".
In its fulfilment, you shall give what orders may be necessary, so that care may be taken of those men at the port of Acapulco and so that all proper facilities and despatch may be accorded them.
Hurriedly he despatched one of his serving men to the Amalekite to bid him await a message.
But he was exceedingly jolly withal, and welcomed the Yankees with pompous good-humor, despatching a sergeant for a jug of applejack, which was doubtless as inexpensive to the major as his other hospitality.
I met when I was in Banffshire for the summer, just before I took the despatches to India.
Lord Cornwallis sent orders for the sum of 1,500,000 rupees, that had been intended for China, to be at once despatched to Bangalore for the use of the army, and the allies.
From Cufa, from Bassora, from Egypt, from the tribes of the desert, they rose in arms, encamped about a league from Medina, and despatched a haughty mandate to their sovereign, requiring him to execute justice, or to descend from the throne.
The military historian, who was himself despatched to observe the army of the Persians, as they were preparing to construct a bridge of boats over the Tigris, beheld from an eminence the plain of Assyria, as far as the edge of the horizon, covered with men, with horses, and with arms.
Hans-jiirgen, a fellow Berliner was today taking the despatch case to the ministry.
While the solicitor was employed in this negotiation, he despatched his valet-de-chambre to one nobleman, and Maurice to another, with billets, signifying the nature of the verdict which his adversary had obtained, and desiring that each would lend him a thousand pounds upon his parole, until he could negotiate bills upon the Continent.
First, however, I despatched some of my best scouts in the direction of Bloemfontein and Reddersburg, while I ordered the commandos under Generals Piet de Wet and A.
MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN: Your despatch about Chattanooga and Dalton was duly received and sent to General Halleck.
The British columns there had just returned exhausted from a drive, but three bodies under Damant, Rimington, and Wilson were at once despatched to clear away the enemy.
Florence were now no longer a mystery: since the month of January he had sent to Pisa ten or twelve hundred men under the Command of Regniero della Sassetta and Piero di Gamba Corti, and as soon as the conquest of the Romagna was complete, he had further despatched Oliverotto di Fermo with new detachments.
The Corps Diplomatique are excessively indignant with the reply they have received from Count Bismarck, declining to allow any but open despatches through the Prussian lines.
The Columbian Minister, too, who was charged with the protest of the Corps Diplomatique to Bismarck on account of his refusal to allow their despatches to go out, has also returned, to re-peruse Grotius and Puffendorf, in order to find more precedents with which to overwhelm Bismarck.