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Show DE DE ¢. That which eaufes defpair which there is no hope that o You'd fee, tould you her inward motions watch Feigning delay, fhe withes for defpatc Then to a woman's meaning would you look Then read her backward Granville The defpatch of a good office is very often as beneficial to the folicitor as the good office itfelf Addifon Strangely vifited people All fivoln and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye The mere defpair of furgery, he cures Hanging a golden ftamp about their necks Put on with holy prayers Shakefpeare 2. Condut 3. [Intheology.] Lofs of confidence in th mercy of God Ar not all or mof evangelica graces in danger of extremes knows, too often a defeét on th may be an excefs on the other God, or godly forrow, be perverte or defpair virtue This night's great bufinefs into my defpatch an ‘Which fhall, to all our nights and days to come Give folely fovereign fway and mafterdom. Shak As there is, Go one fide, fo ther may not hope i into prefumptio Spratt 3. Exprefs; hafty meflenger or meflage as, defpatches were fent away Desra'TcHFUL Bent on hafte She turns, on hofpitable thoughts intent A well fed bullock from the grafly mead DE'SPERATE On Since his exile fthe hath defpis'd me moft Forfworn my company [defpair and full. Obfolete Spenfer Despa'trRINGLY. adv. [from defpairing. In a manner betokening hopeleflnefs o 90 DESPA'TCH. «. a. [depefcher, Fr. 1. To fend away haftily Doétor Theodore Coleby, a fober man, I difparched immediately to Utrecht, to bring th soxa, and learn the exaét method of nfing it Temple The good A neas, whofe paternal car -the earth, before they are dead, and left there Locke I am a man of defperate fortunes, that is, a ma whofe friends are dead; for I never aimed at an other fortune than in friends Pope to Swift 4. Mad ; hot-brained ; furious Were it not the part of a defperate phyfician t endeavours of his fkill for his recovery Spenfer's State of Ireland Dryden death 5. It is fometime His knighted life lity predominating in a high degree Concluding all mere defp'rate fots and tools That durft depart from Ariftotle's rules Pope Shake[peare And the company fhall ftone them with ftones 47 and defpatch them with their {fwords, Ezck.xxiii In combating, but two of you will fall Dryden And we refolve we will defpatch you all Defpatch me quickly, I may death forgive 1 thall grow tender elfe, and with to live Dryden 3. To perform a bufinefs quickly: as, defpatched my affairs, and ran hither Therefore commanded he his chariot-man t drive without ceafing, and to defpatch the journey the judgment of God now following him 2 Mac. ix. 4 No fooner is one aétion defpatched, which, b fuch a determination as the will, we are fet upon But another uneafinefs is ready to fet us on work Locke 4. To conclude an affair with another hat, are the brothers parted ==They have defpatch'd with Pompey ; he is gone Sba,l:cfi;eam Despa'rcH. 7 f. [from the verb. 1. Hafty execution ;5 {peedy performarce Aftfelted defpatch is one of the moft dangerou things to bufincls thatcan be ufed in a fenfe nearl ludicrous, and only marks any bad qua Edmund, I think, Is gone In pity of his mifery, to defpatc Bacon DE'SPICABLE. adj. [dopicabipl Contemptible; vile; mea De'sPErRATELY 1 fordi It is applied equally t Pef: worthlefs fons or things Our cafe were miferable, if that whereyig fight _f moft endeavour to pleafe God were in hi vile and defpicable as men's difdainful fpeech woul make i Their heads as lo Bow'd down in battle, funk before the fpear Of defpicable foes Milta All th" earth he gave thee to poffefs and rule No defpicable gift : Milt'ov Not lefs ev'n in this defpicable hero Than when my name thook Africk with affrigh And froze your hearts beneath your torrid zone ‘ Dryden All the quiet that could be expeéted from fuch reign, muft be the refult of abfolute power op th one hand, and a defpicable flavery on the other Add{fi When men of rank and figure pafs away thei lives in criminal purfuits and praices, they ren der themfelves more vile and defpicable than a ble. with his friend dead, rather than to apply the bef fend out of the world ; to put t care be, this defperation of fuccefs chills :i?we duftry; and we fin on becaufe we have finneg reforming, fuch an one we vulgarly call a defperaz for a mad man owes them Shakefpeare In a part of Afia the fick, when their cafe come to be thought defperate, are carried out and laid o TFilus" abfence could no longer bear 2. T That Rome can make againtt them §,4 As long as we are guilty of any paft'fio have no promife of remiffion, whateyer gy 'g‘fi innocent man can be, whatever low ftation his for Thefe debts may be well called defperate ones Boyle defence Can you think, my lords That any Englifiman dare give me counfel Or be a known friend *gainft his highnefs' pleafure Though he be grown fo defperate to be honeft And live a fubje&t Shake[peare 3. Irretrievable ; unfurmountable ; irrecoverable He fpeaks feverely and defpairingly of our fo Defpatch'd Achates to the fhips in hafte To give a glad relation of the paft Shakefpeare perfon, and that fure is a moft damning fin Hammond defpondency ciety and rail'd at me Defperati firength, an tune and birth have placed him in D ' p c rLEnEss He who goes on without any care or thought o Sidney That fweet but four defpairful care Other cries amongft the Irith favour of th Scythian barbarifm; as the lamentations of thei burials, with defpairful outcries [defperatus, Latin. 1. Without hope He cheers the fearful, and commends the bold Dryd And makes defpairers hope for good fuccefs Hopelefs Pope 2. Without care of fafety ; rafh ; precipitant; fearlefs of danger without hope adj adj That I am defperate of obtaining her Wake Milton Let one defpatchful bid fome {wain to lea reward hereafter; but go on as you have begun Despa'trruL intent on {peedy execu So faying, with defpatchful looks in haft Ecclus. xxils 23 We commend the wit of the Chinefe, who deJpair of making of gold, but are mad upon makin of filver BaconNever defpair of God's bleffings here, or of hi [from defpatch. adj tion of bufinefs Though thou dreweft a fword at thy friend, ye defpair not; for there may be a turning n /0 [from defpair. Obfolete You fhall pu To Despa'tr. @, n. [defpern, Latin.] T be without hope; to defpond: with o before a noun Despa'trERr management Ts all th policy adv Furionily ; madly to fafety or danger [from defperate. withou attentio Your cldeft daughters have foredone themfelves And defp'rately are dead Shakefpeare There might be fomewhat in it, that he woul not have done or defired undone when he brok forth as defperately as before he had done uncivilly Brown's Vulgar Errours 2. In a great degree ; violently: this fenf 1s ludicrous She fell defperately in love with him, and took voyage into Sicily in purfuit of him Addifon DesrERATENESS. 7 /. [from defperate. Madnefs ; fury ; precipitance The going on not only i ment of confcience, but alf fidently, in wilful habits o ratenefs alfo; and the mor dcfperafe DesrErA'TION terrours and amazeboldly, hopingly, confin, is called a defpebold thus, the mor Hammond 2. / [from defperate. Hopeleflnefs ; defpair ; defpondency 7 / Meannefs Addifon [from defpico vilenefs worthlefl nefs ‘We confider the great difproportion between th infinity of the reward and the defpicablencfs of ou fervice DespicaBry adv Decay of Piety [from defpicable. Meanly ; fordidly ; vilely Here wanton Naples crowns the happy fhore Nor vainly rich, nor defpicably poor The town in foft folemnities delights And gentle poets to her arms invites Despi'saBLE. adj. [from defpife.] Con temptible ; defpicable ; regarded wit contempt. A word fcarcely ufed but i low converfation I am obliged to you for taking notice of a poo old diftrefled courtier, commonly the moft defpif " Arbutbnot to Pop able thing in the world 7o DESPI'SE. w. a. [defpifer, old French Skinner ;5 defpicio, Latin. 1. To fcorn to contemn; to {light; t difrefpect For, lo, I will make thee fmall among the heaFers xlix, 15 then, and dzfpifed among men My fons their old unhappy fire defpife Spoil*d of his kingdom, and depriv'd of eyes. Popt 2. In Shakefpeare it feems once to fignif abbor, as from the Italian defpettare Let not your ears dz/pifc my tongue for ever Which fhall poflefs them with the heavie foun Shakefpeare That ever yet they heard Despi'ser n / Con [from dgpife. temner ; {corner Atrt thou. thus bolden'd, xrc;an, by thy diftrefs Or elfe a rude defpifer of good manners That in civility {I;x{u feem'ft fo empty ? A?lmk;tfj Wifdom is commonly, at long running, juftifi ue Ton th o me er Go s ife def he o eve reo fer defp an es rti lib ift ath th Thu ligion, ufually paf thinkers under the name of fr.eef- Savift . F t p d h t D ¢ i f / ity; malici1. Malice; anger; malig oufnefs ; {pleen ; hatred W |