dispense – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to dispense
Participle: dispensed
Gerund: dispensing

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	dispense
we	Let's dispense
you	dispense

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to divide into portions and issue out

administer, allocate, allot, apportion, deal, deal out, dispart, dispend, disperse, distribute, divide, give out, issue, mete out, parcel out, piecemeal, portion out, share, share out, sunder out

to do (something good) after (something bad) happens

compensate, compense, indemnify, make good, make up, recompense, redress, restore

apportion

scatter, allot, assign, allocate, deal, distribute, dole

direct

administer, undertake, enforce

Antonyms

apportion

withhold, retain, reserve, monopolize

direct

mislead, divert, deceive

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1320, from O.Fr. dispenser "give out," from L. dispensare "disburse, administer, distribute (by weight)," freq. of dispendere "pay out," from dis- "out" + pendere "to pay, weigh" (see pendant). In M.L., dispendere was used in the ecclesiastical sense of "grant license to do what is forbidden or omit what is required" (a power of popes, bishops, etc.), and thus acquired a sense of "grant remission from punishment or exemption from law," which led to the Mod.Eng. meaning. Older sense is preserved in dispensary (1699) "place for weighing out medicines," Theological sense is from being used to translate Gk. oikonomoia "office, method of administration." Dispensation is from c.1374.
2. From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”). See: Latin 'dispenso'.

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