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† 1. Not having one’s business completed. Obs.
c. 1610. Sir J. Melvil, Mem. (Bann. Cl.), 101. Being yet at Paris on dispatched, I rasauit wretingis to com in Scotland.
1684. Col. Rec. Pennsylv., I. 109. They have been soe long un-Dispacht of the Buisness proposed.
2. Not settled or disposed of.
1614. Raleigh, Hist. World, II. (1634), 435. This … had caused many men’s private businesses to lie undispatched.
1628. in Buccleuch MSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), I. 267. Your wardenship when I found undispatched I would not let longer to stick.
1721. Strype, Eccl. Mem., 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.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxxii. 142. But not long His Father moned vndispatcht alike for death and wrong.
1888. Stevenson, Black Arrow, 71. Here and there … horse or man rolled, undespatched, in his agony.
