Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dispatch \Dis*patch"\ (?; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Dispatched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dispatching}.] [OF.
   despeechier, F. d['e]p[^e]cher; prob. from pref. des- (L.
   dis-) + (assumed) LL. pedicare to place obstacles in the way,
   fr. L. pedica fetter, fr. pes, pedis, foot. See {Foot}, and
   cf. {Impeach}, {Despatch}.] [Written also {despatch}.]
   1. To dispose of speedily, as business; to execute 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).

   2. To rid; to free. [Obs.]

            I had clean dispatched myself of this great charge.
                                                  --Udall.

   3. To get rid of by sending off; to send away hastily.

            Unless dispatched to the mansion house in the
            country . . . they perish among the lumber of
            garrets.                              --Walpole.

   4. To send off or away; -- particularly applied to sending
      off messengers, messages, letters, etc., on special
      business, and implying haste.

            Even with the speediest expedition I will dispatch
            him to the emperor's cou??.           --Shak.

   5. To send out of the world; to put to death.

            The company shall stone them with stones, and
            dispatch them with their swords.      --Ezek. xxiii.
                                                  47.

   Syn: To expedite; hasten; speed; accelerate; perform;
        conclude; finish; slay; kill.

Source : WordNet®

dispatched
     adj : sent off or away; "the dispatched messenger was has hardly
           out of sight before she wished call him back"