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单词 dispatchful
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dispatchfuladj.

Etymology: < dispatch n. + -ful suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: diˈspatchful.
Obsolete or archaic.
1. Having the quality of dispatching or making away with expeditiously. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
b. quasi adv. Speedily, quickly, in haste. Obsolete.
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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).
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