请输入您要查询的单词：

　

单词 dispense
释义

dispense

See also: dispensé

English

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /dɪˈspɛns/
  • Audio (GA)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛns
  • Hyphenation: dis‧pense

Verb

dispense (third-person singular simple present dispenses, present participle dispensing, simple past and past participle dispensed)

  1. To issue, distribute, or give out.
    • 1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], OCLC 742335644:
      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.
  2. To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
    to dispense justice
    • 1662, John Dryden, To the Lord Chancellor Hyde
      While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
  3. To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
    The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
    An optician can dispense spectacles.
  4. (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 34, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
      After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline […].
    • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 11, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
      It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.
    • 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet
      He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.
  5. (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 30:
      One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence
    • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, Reinhold Pauli, editor, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, OCLC 827099568:
      His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed

Derived terms

  • dispensary
  • dispenser
  • dispense with

Translations

(obsolete in English) to give a dispensation to someone; to excuse — See also translations at excuse#Verb
(obsolete in English) to compensate; to make up; to make amends — See also translations at compensate,‎ make up,‎ make amends
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Translations to be checked

Noun

dispense (countable and uncountable, plural dispenses)

  1. (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
  2. (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
      […] 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

  • dispensable
  • dispensation
  • dispensative
  • dispensatory

Translations

  • dispend

Further reading

  • dispense in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • dispense in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • dispense at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

  • despines, piedness

French

Etymology

Deverbal from dispenser.

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɑ̃s

Noun

dispense f (plural dispenses)

  1. dispensation

Verb

dispense

  1. inflection of dispenser:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

  • “dispense”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

  • pendisse

Italian

Noun

dispense f

  1. plural of dispensa

Verb

dispense

  1. third-person singular past historic of dispegnere

Anagrams

  • pendessi

Portuguese

Verb

dispense

  1. inflection of dispensar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

dispense

  1. inflection of dispensar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
随便看

　

国际大辞典收录了7408809条英语、德语、日语等多语种在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的翻译及用法，是外语学习的有利工具。

　

Copyright © 2004-2023 idict.net All Rights Reserved
京ICP备2021023879号 更新时间：2024/7/31 18:16:02