verb.
Simple past tense and past participle of dispense.
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adjective.
distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions
Word Usage
"Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar."