Verb

(es)

(intransitive): To issue a medium (e.g. publication).

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(transitive): To issue something (usually printed work) for sale and distribution.

(transitive): To announce to the public.

(Internet) To convert data of a Web page to HTML in a local directory and copy it to the Web site on a remote system.

(intransitive): To write in a publication (usually as an academic).

Verb

To issue, distribute, or put out.

* Sir Walter Scott

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.

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

to dispense justice

* Dryden

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 eliminate or do without; used intransitively with with .

I wish he would dispense with the pleasantries and get to the point.

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

* , II.34:

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

* Macaulay

It was resolved that all members of the House who held commissions, should be dispensed from parliamentary attendance.

* Johnson

He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself.

(obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.

* Spenser

One loving hour / For many years of sorrow can dispense .

* Gower

His sin was dispensed / With gold, whereof it was compensed.