单词 | dispatchful |
释义 | dispatchfuladj. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > [adjective] fatalc1386 slaying1398 killing1435 dispatchinga1564 exanimating1607 dispatchful1608 feral1621 murdering1790 martyring1830 1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one ii. sig. D2 Ile..Fall like a secret and dispatchfull plauge [sic] on your secured comforts. 1680 H. More Apocalypsis Apocalypseos 83 Their teeth..were very dispatchfull of their prey. 2. a. Full of or characterized by dispatch; speedy, expeditious, quick, hasty. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adjective] > acting expeditiously (of persons) rapec1410 expedientc1485 sudden1591 expeditiousa1616 dispatchful1642 1642 C. Herle Fuller Answer to Dr. Ferne 2 These dispatchfull and urgent times. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 331 So saying, with dispatchful looks in haste She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent. View more context for this quotation 1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom While the dispatchful fool shall rush bluntly on. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. 246 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. 1814 H. Busk Fugitive Pieces 230 If despatchful haste thy journey need. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. iv. 76 Which he promised to prepare with the most dispatchful solicitude. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > expeditiously post-haste1597 expeditiously1603 dispatchedly1611 expedientlya1616 post1632 dispatchful1725 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 534 Let one, dispatchful, bid some swain to lead A well-fed bullock from the grassy mead. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxiii. 148 Their keen-edged axes to the towering oaks Dispatchful they applied. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1608 |
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