dispense
See also: dispensé
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French dispenser, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin dispensare (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).
Pronunciation
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Audio (GA): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛns
- Hyphenation: dis‧pense
Verb
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- To issue, distribute, or give out.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
- The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.
- (Can we date this quote by Sir Walter Scott and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
- to dispense justice
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- While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
- To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
- The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
- An optician can dispense spectacles.
- (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
- Template:RQ:Florio Montaigne Essayes
- (Can we date this quote by Macaulay and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.
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- He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
- (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- One loving hour / For many years of sorrow can dispense.
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- His sin was dispensed / With gold, whereof it was compensed.
- (Can we date this quote by Spenser and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
Derived terms
Translations
to issue, distribute, or give out
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to supply or make up a medicine or prescription
to eliminate or do without
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Noun
dispense (countable and uncountable, plural dispenses)
- (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
- (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- […] 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 […]
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “dispense”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “dispense”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “dispense”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑ̃s
Noun
dispense f (plural dispenses)
Verb
dispense
- first-person singular present indicative of dispenser
- third-person singular present indicative of dispenser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser
- second-person singular imperative of dispenser
Further reading
- “dispense”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
dispense f
Verb
dispense
- third-person singular past historic of dispegnere
Anagrams
Portuguese
Verb
dispense
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dispensar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dispensar
- first-person singular imperative of dispensar
- third-person singular imperative of dispensar
Spanish
Verb
dispense
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispensar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
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