depeach
English
Etymology
From French dépêcher (“to dispatch”). See dispatch.
Verb
depeach (third-person singular simple present depeaches, present participle depeaching, simple past and past participle depeached)
- (obsolete) To discharge.
- Hakluyt
- as soon as the party […] before our justices shall be depeached
- Hakluyt
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for depeach in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- cheaped, peached