dispatchful

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From dispatch +‎ -ful.

Adjective

dispatchful (comparative more dispatchful, superlative most dispatchful)

  1. (archaic) hasty; hurried.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
      with dispatchful looks in haste
      She turns , on hospitable thoughts intent

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