Circulate is a related term of dispense.
As verbs the difference between circulate and dispense
is that
circulate is to move in circles or through a circuit while
dispense is .
circulate English
Verb
( circulat)
to move in circles or through a circuit
to cause (a person or thing) to move in circles or through a circuit
to move from person to person, as at a party
to spread or disseminate
- to circulate money or gossip
to become widely known
Synonyms
* put about
* spread
* disseminate
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dispense English
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.
Derived terms
* dispensary
* dispenser
Noun
( en noun)
(obsolete) Cost, expenditure.
(obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation.
* , II.xii:
- what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence [...].
Related terms
* dispend
* dispensable
* dispensation
* dispensative
* dispensatory
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