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undiˈspatched, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
†1. Not having one's business completed. Obs.
c1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (Bann. Cl.) 101 Being yet at Paris on dispatched, I rasauit wretingis to com in Scotland. 1684Col. Rec. Pennsylv. I. 109 They have been soe long un-Dispacht of the Business proposed.
2. Not settled or disposed of.
1614Raleigh Hist. World ii. (1634) 435 This..had caused many men's private businesses to lie undispatched. 1628in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 267 Your wardenship when I found undispatched I would not let longer to stick. 1721Strype Eccl. Mem. II. i. xvi. 134 Which [bill] was..sent up to the lords' house, where it lay undispatched.
3. Not deprived of life; not killed outright.
1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxxii. 142 But not long His Father moned vndispatcht alike for death and wrong. 1888Stevenson Black Arrow 71 Here and there..horse or man rolled, undespatched, in his agony. |