dispatchment

Compare Old French despechement.

dispatchment (countable and uncountable, plural dispatchments)

1. (obsolete) The act of dispatching.
   • 1529, Cardinal Wolsey, State Trials:

     For want of dispatchment of matters

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