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<p><b>2.</b> <def>To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.</def>

<blockquote>While you <b>dispense</b> the laws, and guide the state. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To pay for; to atone for.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>His sin was <b>dispensed</b> With gold, whereof it was compensed. <i>Gower.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with <i>from</i>.</def>

<blockquote>It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be <b>dispensed</b> from parliamentary attendance. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and <b>dispensed</b> from all necessity of providing for himself. <i>Johnson.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dispense</h1> <Xpage=429>

<hw>Dis*pense"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To compensate; to make up; to make amends.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>One loving hour For many years of sorrow can <b>dispense</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To give dispensation.</def>

<blockquote>He [the pope] can also <b>dispense</b> in all matters of ecclesiastical law. <i>Addis & Arnold (Cath. Dict. )</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To dispense with</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To permit the neglect or omission of, as a form, a ceremony, an oath; to suspend the operation of, as a law; to give up, release, or do without, as services, attention, etc.; to forego; to part with</cd>. <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>To allow by dispensation; to excuse; to exempt; to grant dispensation to or for. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd> "Conniving and <i>dispensing with<i> open and common adultery." <i>Milton</i>. <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>To break or go back from, as one's word. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Richardson.</i>

<h1>Dispense</h1> <Xpage=429>

<hw>Dis*pense"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>dispense</ets> dispensation. See <er>Dispense</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>Dispensation; exemption.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Dispense</h1> <Xpage=429>

<hw>Dis*pense"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>despense</ets>, F. <ets>d\'82pense</ets>.]</ety> <def>Expense; profusion; outlay.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>It was a vault built for great <b>dispense</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dispenser</h1> <Xpage=429>

<hw>Dis*pens"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; <as>as, a <ex>dispenser</ex> of favors</as>.</def>

<h1>Dispeople</h1> <Xpage=429>

<hw>Dis*peo"ple</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dispeopled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dispeopling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>people</ets>: cf. F. <ets>d\'82peupler</ets>.]</ety> <def>To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate.</def>

<blockquote>Leave the land <b>dispeopled</b> and desolate. <i>Sir T. More.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A certain island long before <b>dispeopled</b> . . . by sea rivers. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dispeopler</h1> <Xpage=429>

<hw>Dis*peo"pler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, dispeoples; a depopulator.</def>

<i>Gay.</i>