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DispenceDispence Dis*pence", v. i. & n.
See Dispense. [Obs.] DispendDispend Dis*pend", v. t. [OF. despendre, L. dispendere to
weigh out, dispense; dis- + pendere to weigh. See Pension,
Spend, and cf. Dispense.]
To spend; to lay out; to expend. [Obs.] --Spenser.
Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above.
--Fuller. Dispender
Dispender Dis*pend"er, n.
One who dispends or expends; a steward. [Obs.] --Wyclif (1
Cor. iv. 1).
DispensableDispensable Dis*pen"sa*ble, a. [LL. dispensabilis. See
Dispense.]
1. Capable of being dispensed or administered.
2. Capable of being dispensed with. --Coleridge. Dispensableness
Dispensableness Dis*pen"sa*ble*ness, n.
Quality of being dispensable.
DispensariesDispensary Dis*pen"sa*ry, n.; pl. Dispensaries. [Cf. F.
dispensaire.]
1. A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp.,
a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and
medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
2. A dispensatory. --Pope. DispensaryDispensary Dis*pen"sa*ry, n.; pl. Dispensaries. [Cf. F.
dispensaire.]
1. A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed; esp.,
a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and
medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.
2. A dispensatory. --Pope. Dispensative
Dispensative Dis*pen"sa*tive, a. [Cf. F. dispensatif.]
Granting dispensation.
Dispensatively
Dispensatively Dis*pen"sa*tive*ly, adv.
By dispensation. --Wotton.
Dispensator
Dispensator Dis"pen*sa`tor, n. [L.]
A distributer; a dispenser. --Bacon.
DispensatoriesDispensatory Dis*pen"sa*to*ry, n.; pl. Dispensatories.
A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic
description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It
is usually, but not always, distinguished from a
pharmacop[oe]ia in that it issued by private parties, and not
by an official body or by government. Dispensatorily
Dispensatorily Dis*pen"sa*to*ri*ly, adv.
In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
DispensatoryDispensatory Dis*pen"sa*to*ry, a. [L. dispensatorius relating
to management. See Dispense, v. t.]
Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations.
``Dispensatory power.' --Bp. Rainbow. DispensatoryDispensatory Dis*pen"sa*to*ry, n.; pl. Dispensatories.
A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic
description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It
is usually, but not always, distinguished from a
pharmacop[oe]ia in that it issued by private parties, and not
by an official body or by government. DispenseDispense Dis*pense", v. t. [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. DispenseDispense Dis*pense", n. [Cf. F. dispense dispensation. See
Dispense, v. t.]
Dispensation; exemption. [Obs.] DispensedDispense Dis*pense", v. t. [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. Dispenser
Dispenser Dis*pens"er, n.
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a
dispenser of favors.
DispensingDispense Dis*pense", v. t. [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. Indispensable
Indispensable In`dis*pen"sa*ble, a. [Pref. in- not +
dispensable: cf. F. indispensable.]
1. Not dispensable; impossible to be omitted, remitted, or
spared; absolutely necessary or requisite.
2. (Eccl.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release
or exemption. [R.]
The law was moral and indispensable. --Bp. Burnet.
3. Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] --Fuller.
Indispensableness
Indispensableness In`dis*pen"sa*ble*ness, n.
The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely
necessary. --S. Clarke.
Indispensably
Indispensably In`dis*pen"sa*bly, adv.
In an indispensable manner. ``Indispensably necessary.'
--Bp. Warburton.
Patriarchal dispensationPatriarchal Pa`tri*ar"chal, a. [Cf. F. patriarcal.]
1. Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs;
possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal
authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a
patriarchal church.
2. Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.
About whose patriarchal knee Late the little
children clung. --Tennyson.
3. (Ethnol.) Having an organization of society and government
in which the head of the family exercises authority over
all its generations.
Patriarchal cross (Her.), a cross, the shaft of which is
intersected by two transverse beams, the upper one being
the smaller. See Illust. (2) of Cross.
Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under
which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses. Undispensable
Undispensable Un`dis*pen"sa*ble, a.
1. Indispensable.
2. Unavoidable; inevitable. [Obs.] --Fuller.
3. Not to be freed by dispensation. [Obs.]
Undispensed
Undispensed Un`dis*pensed", a.
1. Not dispensed.
2. Not freed by dispensation. [R.] --Tooker.
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