Sekirov Dictionary

dispense

/dɪˈspɛns/

verb 5
noun 2
forms 5
phrases 1

verb5

•
To issue, distribute, or give out.
- He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. — 1815
•
To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
- The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
- An optician can dispense spectacles.
•
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
- While you dispense the laws, and guide the state. — 1662
•
To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
- Every spring, the passive aggressive archbishop suffered from a brief flu that dispensed him from needing to provide Easter service to the king.
- She was dispensed from her vows and married Captain von Trapp.
•
(no longer used) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
- One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence — 1590

noun2

(no longer used) Cost, expenditure.
•
(no longer used) The 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 […] — 1590

forms

dispensed · dispensing · dispenses · dispenseth · dispensest

Phrases with dispense

dispense with
To eliminate; to dispose of.

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