dispense

To issue, distribute, or give out.

He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.

The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.

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

to dispense justice

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.

To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.

After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline[…].

Of evils the first and greatest is, that hereby a most absurd and rash imputation is fixt upon God and his holy Laws, of conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery among his chosen people; a thing which the rankest politician would think it shame and disworship, that his Laws should countenance; how and in what manner this comes to passe, I shall reserve, till the course of method brings on the unfolding of many Scriptures.

To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence

His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed

Cost, expenditure.

The act of dispensing, dispensation.

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