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dispell
English
Verb
dispell (third-person singular simple present dispells, present participle dispelling, simple past and past participle dispelled)
- Obsolete spelling of dispel
Usage notes
In modern standard spelling, *dispell is a misspelling of dispel. The doubled consonant of the correctly spelled inflected forms (dispelled, dispelling) probably (as assumed) influences the urge to spell the infinitive form with -ll, as does the word spell (spell, spelled, spelling), but dispel is like expel, impel, and propel regarding infinitive form. These words all share the /pel/ root that means to drive (in or out), push/pull, or beat on, with the prefixes indicating the type of driving/pushing (dis-, ex-, im-, pro-). Most major dictionaries do not enter *dispell because it is not used in modern standard spelling.
Anagrams
- Spidell, spilled
dispell From the web:
dispense
English
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispensare (“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): /d?s?p?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
- Hyphenation: dis?pense
Verb
dispense (third-person singular simple present dispenses, present participle dispensing, simple past and past participle dispensed)
- To issue, distribute, or give out.
- 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.
- 1955, William Golding, The Inheritors, Faber and Faber 2005, p.40:
- 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.
- To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
- The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
- An optician can dispense spectacles.
- (obsolete) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
- 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.
- 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet
- (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
- His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed
Derived terms
- dispensary
- dispenser
- dispense with
Translations
Noun
dispense (countable and uncountable, plural dispenses)
- (obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
- (obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
Translations
Derived terms
- dispensable
- dispensation
- dispensative
- dispensatory
Related terms
- 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 of dispenser.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -??s
Noun
dispense f (plural dispenses)
- dispensation
Verb
dispense
- first-person singular present indicative of dispenser
- third-person singular present indicative of dispenser
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dispenser
- second-person singular imperative of dispenser
Further reading
- “dispense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- pendisse
Italian
Noun
dispense f
- plural of dispensa
Verb
dispense
- third-person singular past historic of dispegnere
Anagrams
- pendessi
Portuguese
Verb
dispense
- first-person singular present subjunctive of dispensar
- third-person singular present subjunctive of dispensar
- first-person singular imperative of dispensar
- third-person singular imperative of dispensar
Spanish
Verb
dispense
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispensar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dispensar.
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