1.To compensate; to make up; to make amends. (Obs.) "One loving hour For many years of sorrow can dispense."
2.To give dispensation. "He (the pope) can also dispense in all matters of ecclesiastical law."
To dispense with. (a)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.
(b)To allow by dispensation; to excuse; to exempt; to grant dispensation to or for. (Obs.) "Conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery."
(c)To break or go back from, as one's word. (Obs.)
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