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Southey.

Dis*pau"per (?), v. t. To deprive of the claim of a pauper to public support; to deprive of the privilege of suing in forma pauperis.

Dis*pau"per*ize (?), v. t. To free a state of pauperism, or from paupers. J. S. Mill.

Dis*peed" (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + speed.] To send off with speed; to dispatch. [Obs.] Knolles.

Then they dispeeded themselves of the Cid and of their mother-in-law, Do&?;a Ximena.

Southey.

Dis*pel" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dispelled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Dispelling.] [L. dispellere; dis- + pellere to push, drive. See Pulse a beating.] To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions.

Milton.

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

Dryden.

Dis*pence" (?), v. i. & n. See Dispense. [Obs.]

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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.

Dis*pend"er (?), n. One who dispends or expends; a steward. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1).

Dis*pen"sa*ble (?), a. [LL. dispensabilis. See Dispense.] 1. Capable of being dispensed or administered.

2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.

Dis*pen"sa*ble*ness, n. Quality of being dispensable.

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.

Dis`pen*sa"tion (?), n. [F. dispensation, L. dispensatio.] 1. The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.

To respect the dispensations of Providence.

Burke.

2. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed; especially (Theol.), A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.

Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man.

Rogers.

3. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).