dispatch vb. (the most freq. meaning in S. is ‘to make haste’)
1.
to make away with,
kill R2 III. i. 35; absol.
John IV. i. 27, R3 I. ii. 182, Lr. II. i. 60; also
“to dispatch” a
person's “life”
Lr. IV. v. 12.
2.
to deprive “of”
Ham. I. v. 75
“Of life, of crown, of
queen, at once dispatch'”
3.
to settle, conclude
(a business), execute promptly; absol.
Wiv. V. v. 196
“have you d-ed?,”
Ant. V. ii. 229; to
settle or have done “with”
Meas. III. i. 280
“ with
Angelo,”
Ant. III. ii. 2
“They have d-'d with
Pompey.”
