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English
Etymology
From dis- + speed.
Pronunciation
Verb
dispeed (third-person singular simple present dispeeds, present participle dispeeding, simple past and past participle dispeeded or disped)
- (obsolete) To send off with speed; to dispatch.
1808, Robert Southey, Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish:Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law.
1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, , London: Adam Islip, →OCLC:a Detachment of four thousand Horse were dispeeded under Covert of the Hills
References
“dispeed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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