depeach
English edit
Etymology edit
From French dépêcher (“to dispatch”). See dispatch.
Verb edit
depeach (third-person singular simple present depeaches, present participle depeaching, simple past and past participle depeached)
- (obsolete) To discharge.
- 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
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)