intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To give or deal out, especially in parts or portions: synonym: distribute.

intransitive verb. To prepare and give out (medicines).

intransitive verb. To administer (laws, for example).

intransitive verb. To exempt or release, as from a duty or religious obligation.

intransitive verb. To grant a dispensation or exemption.

phrasal verb. To manage without; forgo.

phrasal verb. To get rid of; do away with.

To put up (a medical prescription).

noun. Dispensation.

noun. Expense; expenditure; profusion.

noun. A larder; a spence.

To deal or divide out; give forth diffusively, or in some general way; practise distribution of: as, the sun dispenses heat and light; to dispense charity, medicines, etc.

To administer; apply, as laws to particular cases; put in force.

To relieve; excuse; set free from an obligation; exempt; grant dispensation to.

To atone for; secure pardon or forgiveness for.

Synonyms Dispense, Distribute, Allot, Apportion, Assign. Dispense is to be distinguished from the others in that it expresses an indiscriminate or general giving, while they express a particular and personal giving; as, to distribute gifts; to assign the parts in a play, etc.

To make amends; compensate.

To bargain for a dispensation; compound.

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To give up the possession or use of; do without: as, to dispense with all but the bare necessaries of life; I can dispense with your services.

To give up the observance or practice of; do away with; disregard.

To put up with; allow; condone.

To excuse; exempt; set free, as from an obligation.

To do or perform: as, to dispense with miracles.

To dispose of; consume.

intransitive verb. To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

intransitive verb. To give dispensation.

intransitive verb. To break or go back from, as one's word.

noun. Dispensation; exemption.

noun. Expense; profusion; outlay.

transitive verb. To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give

transitive verb. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.

transitive verb. To pay for; to atone for.

transitive verb. To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.

verb. To issue, distribute, or put out.

verb. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.

verb. To eliminate or do without–used intransitively with with.

verb. To give a dispensation to (someone) to do something against the law.

noun. Cost, expenditure.

noun. The act of dispensing, dispensation.

verb. give or apply (medications)

verb. administer or bestow, as in small portions

verb. grant a dispensation; grant an exemption

"Yet no consideration could dispense from the law of Constantine: the clergy, the senate, and the people, disapproved the conduct of"

to dispense with  

dispend  dispensable  dispensation  dispensative  dispensatory  

dispensary  

exempt  free  relieve  

Spence  cents  commence  commonsense  condense  

Spender  came  directionality  goop  largesse  

OK  abolish  absolve  abstain from  accord  

dispensed  dispenses  dispensing