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quickly; to make a speedy end of; to finish; to perform. Ere we put ourselves in arms, dispatch we The business we have talked of. Shak. [The] harvest men . . . almost in one fair day dispatcheth all the harvest work. Robynson (More's Utopia).

One who dispatches.

aste; intent on speedy execution of business or any task; indicating haste; quick; as, dispatchful looks. Milton.

The act of dispatching. [Obs.] State Trials (1529).

Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy. [R.] Many discrepancies and some dispathies between us. Southey.

used esp. of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. Dissipated those foggy mists of error. Selden. I soon dissipated his fears. Cook. The extreme tendency of civilization is to dissipate all intellectual energy. Hazlitt.

Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson.

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale.

Tending to dissipate. Dissipative system (Mech.), an assumed system of matter and motions in which forces of friction and resistances of other kinds are introduced without regard to the heat or other molecular actions which they generate; -- opposed to conservative system.

The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into other forms of energy.

Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference. [R.]

A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.

See Dunderhead.

A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions.

The treatment of disease by electricity.

other; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

controlling influence; also, the state of being thus set free; liberation; as, the emancipation of slaves; the emancipation of minors; the emancipation of a person from prejudices; the emancipation of the mind from superstition; the emancipation of a nation from tyranny or subjection.

An advocate of emancipation, esp. the emancipation of slaves.

One who emancipates.

Pertaining to emancipation, or tending to effect emancipation. "Emancipatory laws." G. Eliot.