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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dispense \Dis*pense"\, verb (used without an object)
1. To compensate; to make up; to make amends. [Obs.]
One loving hour For many years of sorrow can dispense. --Spenser.
2. To give dispensation.
He [the pope] can also dispense in all matters of ecclesiastical law. --Addis & Arnold (Cath. Dict. )
{To dispense with}. (a) To permit the neglect or omission of, as a form, a ceremony, an oath; to suspend the operation of, as a law; to give up, release, or do without, as services, attention, etc.; to forego; to part with. (b) To allow by dispensation; to excuse; to exempt; to grant dispensation to or for. [Obs.] ''Conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery.'' --Milton. (c) To break or go back from, as one's word. [Obs.] --Richardson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dispense \Dis*pense"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Dispensed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Dispensing}.] [F. dispenser, L. dispensare, intens. of dispendere. See {Dispend}.]
1. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. --Sir W. Scott.
2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
While you dispense the laws, and guide the state. --Dryden.
3. To pay for; to atone for. [Obs.]
His sin was dispensed With gold, whereof it was compensed. --Gower.
4. To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.
It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance. --Macaulay.
He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself. --Johnson.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dispense \Dis*pense"\, noun [Cf. F. dispense dispensation. See {Dispense}, verb (used with an object)] Dispensation; exemption. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dispense \Dis*pense"\, noun [OF. despense, F. d['e]pense.] Expense; profusion; outlay. [Obs.]
It was a vault built for great dispense. --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dispense
verb
1: administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone" [syn: {distribute}, {administer}, {mete out}, {deal}, {parcel out}, {lot}, {shell out}, {deal out}, {dish out}, {allot}, {dole out}]
2: grant a dispensation; grant an exemption; "I was dispensed from this terrible task"
3: give or apply (medications) [syn: {administer}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
143 Moby Thesaurus words for "dispense": OK, abolish, abstain from, accord, administer, admit, afford, allocate, allot, allow, apply, apportion, assign, award, bestow, bestow on, bestrew, broadcast, cancel, carry out, circumfuse, communicate, conduct, confer, consent, deal, deal out, diffract, diffuse, direct, disburse, discharge, dish out, dispense with, disperse, dispose, dispose of, dispread, disseminate, distribute, diverge, divide, divvy, do away with, do without, dole, dole out, donate, eliminate, enforce, eschew, execute, extend, fan out, forgo, fork out, forswear, furnish, get rid of, gift, gift with, give, give away, give freely, give leave, give out, give permission, give the go-ahead, give the word, give up, grant, hand out, hawk, heap, help to, huckster, ignore, impart, implement, issue, lavish, leave, let, let have, make possible, measure, measure out, mete, mete out, offer, okay, operate, overscatter, oversow, overspread, parcel out, pass around, pass out, pay out, peddle, permit, portion out, pour, present, proffer, propagate, provide, publish, radiate, rain, refuse, reject, release, relinquish, remove, render, renounce, retail, say the word, scatter, serve, share out, shell out, shower, slip, snow, sow, sow broadcast, spare, splay, spoon out, spread, spread out, strew, superintend, supervise, supply, tender, utter, vend, vouchsafe, waive, yield
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