redispatchredespatchv.

1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent vii. 660 Ventimiglia, redispatched [It. reispedito] by the Pope, returned to Trent the nine and twentieth of Ianuary.

1780 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. I. 300 I..certainly shall redespatch my messenger before the Empress's departure.

1888 T. A. Trollope What I Remember xx. 275 They [sc. articles] were rejected often, but redespatched a second and a third time, if necessary,..and eventually swallowed by some editor or other.

1896 Polit. Sci. Q. 11 108 In May Petty returned to Dublin. Thence he was redispatched to England June 16, 1659, as the bearer of Henry Cromwell's letter of acquiescence in the overthrow of the Protectorate.

1919 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 82 331 Merchants in Osek (Slavonia) find it an advantage when sending goods to Bosnia-Herzegovina, to dispatch them first to Budapest and then to re-dispatch them to Bosnia-Herzegovina.

1959 Stud. in Renaissance 6 138 Both Sforza and Cosimo desired an immediate French military intervention in the peninsula. To expedite its arrival, they re~dispatched Acciaioli to France towards the end of September 1452.

2005 A. Kenny Arthur Hugh Clough iv. 125 Clough underpaid the postage and his letter was returned, to be redespatched on 25 February.