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† deˈspeche, v. Obs. Also 6 dyspesche. [A variant of depeche, depeach, after 16th c. F. despecher, in OF. despeechier: see depeach.] trans. To send away, get rid of, dispatch.
1531Elyot Gov. ii. ii, The capitaynes..despeched the multitude from them. Ibid. iii. x, Despechynge of sondry great affayres. Ibid. iii. xxvii, Sufficient to despeche matters of weyghtye importaunce. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 218 b, To have thesame Mithridates by the backe, and to despeche hym out of the waye. 1550Nicolls Thucyd. 223 (R.), They dyspesched a brigantyne [Fr. despescherent ung brigantin] by the which they aduertysed the Athenyans of that same victorie. |