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)

  1. (obsolete) To discharge or dispatch
    • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
      as soon as the party […] before our justices shal be depeached

References

“depeach”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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