dispense

verbnounattested in dialogue

Canada//dɪˈspɛns//
Australia//dɪˈspens//

To issue, distribute, or give out.

verb

1
To issue, distribute, or give out.
He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.
The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
2
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
to dispense justice
While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
3
To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
An optician can dispense spectacles.
4
To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline[…].
1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.
Every spring, the passive aggressive archbishop suffered from a brief flu that dispensed him from needing to provide Easter service to the king.
5
obsoleteTo compensate; to make up; to make amends.
One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence
His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).

noun

1
obsoleteCost, expenditure.
2
obsoleteThe act of dispensing, dispensation.
[…] what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence […]

Forms

plural: dispenses
past tense: dispensed
past participle: dispensed
present participle: dispensing
third person singular: dispenses

disorderly · Not in order; marked by disorder or disarray.dispatch · To send (a shipment) with promptness.dispatcher · In a transportation organization, a person who controls the…

dispense · To issue, distribute, or give out.

disperse · To scatter in different directions.display · A show or spectacle.displayed · Spread out; unfurled.

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