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dispense | despatch |

As verbs the difference between dispense and despatch

is that dispense is while despatch is .

As a noun despatch is

(see also wikipedia's ).

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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    despatch

    English

    Noun

    (es)
  • (see also Wikipedia's )
  • * 1843 , , The Conquest of Mexico , Volume 1, 1957, page 31,
    • The courier, bearing his despatches in the form of a hieroglyphical painting, ran with them to the first station,.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1931, author=
    • , title=Death Walks in Eastrepps , chapter=1/1 citation , passage=Eldridge closed the despatch -case with a snap and, rising briskly, walked down the corridor to his solitary table in the dining-car.}}

    Verb

    (es)
  • *1833 , Massachusetts Medical Society, New England Surgical Society, Boston Medical and Surgical Journal , Volumes 8-9, page 31,
  • *:She fainted, was got into bed, and a messenger was despatched for me.
  • *
  • *:There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.Passengers wander restlessly about or hurry, with futile energy, from place to place. Pushing men hustle each other at the windows of the purser's office, under pretence of expecting letters or despatching telegrams.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
    • , volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Obama's once hip brand is now tainted , passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}