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diˈspatchful, a. Obs. or arch.
[f. dispatch n. + -ful.]
†1. Having the quality of dispatching or making away with expeditiously. Obs.
1608Middleton Trick to Catch Old One ii. ii. D ij, Ile..Fall like a secret and dispatchfull plague On your secured comforts. 1680H. More Apocal. Apoc. 83 Their teeth..were very dispatchfull of their prey.
2. Full of or characterized by dispatch; speedy, expeditious, quick, hasty. Obs. or arch.
1642Fuller Answ. to Ferne 3 Those dispatchfull and urgent times. 1667Milton P.L. v. 331 So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent. 1683tr. Erasmus' Moriæ Enc., While the dispatchful fool shall rush bluntly on. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 592 There is a wide difference between leading a regular life, and living by rule; the one is pleasant, easy, smooth, and dispatchful; the other..toilsome, stiff, and generally wasteful both of time and strength. 1814H. Busk Fugitive Pieces 230 If despatchful haste thy journey need. 1829Lytton Disowned 19 The most dispatchful solicitude.
†b. quasi adv. Speedily, quickly, in haste. Obs.
1725Pope Odyss. iii. 534 Let one, dispatchful, bid some swain to lead A well-fed bullock from the grassy mead. 1791Cowper Iliad xxiii. 148 Their keen-edged axes to the towering oaks Dispatchful they applied. |