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单词 undispatched
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undispatchedadj.

Etymology: un- prefix1 2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: undiˈspatched.
1. Not having one's business completed. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > completing > non-completion > [adjective] > not completing one's business > not having one's business completed
undispatchedc1610
c1610 J. Melville Mem. Own Life (1827) 101 Being yet at Paris on dispatched, I rasauit wretingis to com in Scotland.
1684 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 109 They have been soe long un-Dispacht of the Business proposed.
2. Not settled or disposed of.
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the world > action or operation > inaction > not doing > [adjective] > not done, performed, or carried out > not dealt with
uncoped1594
undispatched1614
unhandled1623
undealt1645
1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xix. §4. 510 This..had caused many mens priuate businesses to lie vndispatched.
1628 in Buccleuch MSS (Hist. MSS Comm.) (1899) I. 267 Your wardenship when I found undispatched I would not let longer to stick.
1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials 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.
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the world > life > death > killing > [adjective] > not killed outright
undispatched1589
1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) vi. xxxii. 142 But not long His Father moned vndispatcht alike for death and wrong.
1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow i. v. 71 Here and there..horse or man rolled, undespatched, in his agony.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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