Dispatch \Dis*patch"\, v. i. To make haste; to conclude an affair; to finish a matter of business.
They have dispatched with Pompey. --Shak.
Dispatch \Dis*patch"\, n. [Cf. OF. despeche, F. d['e]p[^e]che. See {Dispatch}, v. t.] [Written also {despatch}.] 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. --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}.
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.
The dispatch did not say when the incident occurred.
A pledge by the Contras not to dispatch any forces into Nicaragua from base camps in Honduras, in addition to withdrawing 2,000 of their estimated 5,000 troops based in Nicaragua.
Four guards were killed and two wounded in the Oct. 10 attack, said the dispatch dated Monday and seen in Bangkok on Tuesday.
It would be one of his lasting regrets if he were not able to finish the modernisation of the Spanish economy with the same dispatch.
Under the 25-year agreement, China, which is connected to Udokan by the Baikul-Amur Railway, would in turn dispatch the concentrate to smelters which it will build specially to cope with the concentrate's high sulphur content.
The Prensa Latina dispatch did not provide a figure.
But he said that the dispatch of French troops was conditional on UN approval and on the participation of other countries. Mr Francois Leotard, the defence minister, ruled out the possibility that France would go it alone.
"The cosmonauts feel well," Tass said in a brief dispatch.
Everyone files past the apartment at delivery time, and if someone is out of town, tenants dispatch children to slip mail under the absentee's door.
Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to make the next shuttle flight, with launch set for April 28. Its crew will dispatch the Magellan payload to orbit the planet Venus.
In its dispatch Friday, it said it could not find the other five survivors, the rescuers or any witnesses to the incident that made headlines around the world.
The dispatch, which cited evidence presented at the trial near Kiev, was the first official report since the proceedings began last week.
The Kremlin decision, backed by a tough back-to-work order and the dispatch of troops to enforce order, produced a brief calm.
In a dispatch from Havana, the Notimex agency said the evidence was published in a 480-page book called "Case 1-89, the End of the Cuban Connection." It did not describe the contents.
The test by the Union Pacific Corp. unit was an important demonstration of new train control systems, say rail executives, boosting prospects that the industry will soon dispatch trains automatically.
A decision on whether to dispatch the Polar Star presumably could have a further political impact in that the U.S.-Canada trade agreement has stalled in the Canadian parliament.
The official Iraqi News Agency said in a terse dispatch that Saddam met with Habash Sunday on the crisis.
Noting the federal judges in his district "have a reputation for moving cases quickly," Hudson predicted, "Our judges will rule with dispatch" on any defense motions.
A peacekeeping operation was outlined for Cambodia by U.N. officials, who said they plan to dispatch at least 22,000 foreign staff there.
But if the services do decide to dispatch with boxing, it will not be a victory for good sense.
In a dispatch from the state capital of Patna, UNI quoted Bihar Home Affairs Commissioner Jiya Lal Arya as saying police fired when the mob attacked homes.
Iranian officials have criticized Iraq for its Aug. 2 invasion of Kuwait, but have also denounced the dispatch of foreign forces to the region.
"Mr. al-Maliky added that the court would listen to Iraqi, Arab and international witnesses with regard to charges against Bush," INA said in a dispatch late Wednesday.
The United States said it will dispatch 27,000 tons of rice, vegetable oil and wheat flour worth $12 million.
Lawmakers rallied Wednesday behind President Bush's decision to dispatch troops to Saudi Arabia, but cautioned against U.S. forces defending the oil-rich nation without the help of other countries.
The city's Department of Water and Power said Thursday it will dispatch a street patrol of "drought busters" to look for water waste as the region enters its fourth consecutive drought year.
Superconductivity would vastly improve the efficiency of a strategic defense against nuclear weapons; computers would be able to pinpoint the targets more clearly, and dispatch interceptors or focus laser beams more quickly.
An investigation was under way, the north's official Korean Central News Agency said in a dispatch monitored in Tokyo.
A Prensa Latina dispatch Friday said the conference closed after holding 14 plenary sessions and approving about 30 resolutions, one of them praising the Castro government and the Cuban people for their hospitality.
NEXTEL Communications, a six-year-old New Jersey radio dispatch service company, this week burst on to the scene as a potential new rival to established US cellular telephone services.