Dispensed
[dis'penst]
Definition
(adj.) distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions; 'medicines dispensed to the sick' .
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Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Dispense
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Examples
- I expressed myself much obliged to him, but did not think it necessary to add that I readily dispensed with this attention. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I always showed him, for one, that I could have dispensed with his company with the greatest pleasure. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But he, with a perfect stoicism, did without any before and after, dispensed with all illusion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The shuttle was thus dispensed with, and an entirely new departure was made in the art. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- But any answer was dispensed with by the entrance of three gentlemen, with whom there were greetings more or less cordial. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Nor was it expected that human hands could be dispensed with in the cutting out of garments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The rest of this eloquent epistle may be dispensed with. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And the power which the eye possesses is a sort of effluence which is dispensed from the sun? Plato. The Republic.
- By this system the hauling of forage for the supply train was almost wholly dispensed with. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Till then, you are dispensed from lessons. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She threw herself on the bench beside me, and (a demonstration I could very well have dispensed with) cast her arms round my neck. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He could had dispensed with Coavinses. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These monsters failed creatively to develop, so God, the creative mystery, dispensed with them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Some recent inventors have dispensed with the wick altogether and the oil is burned practically like vapour. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Hereupon, however, followed an attention I could very well have dispensed with, viz--a polite call from Madame Beck. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But as the tin and felt do not render the room absolutely air-tight, I am of opinion that it can as well be dispensed with. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
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