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To dispense with

Dispense \Dis*pense"\, v. i.

  1. To compensate; to make up; to make amends. [Obs.]

    One loving hour For many years of sorrow can dispense.
    --Spenser.

  2. To give dispensation. He [the pope] can also dispense in all matters of ecclesiastical law. --Addis & Arnold (Cath. Dict. ) To dispense with.

    1. 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.

    2. To allow by dispensation; to excuse; to exempt; to grant dispensation to or for. [Obs.] ``Conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery.''
      --Milton.

    3. To break or go back from, as one's word. [Obs.]
      --Richardson.

Usage examples of "to dispense with".

By reason of his burden he had to dispense with the use of his lamp.

It would have been so easy to dispense with you in the Valley of Vrunge had I but known your true identity’.

It would have been so easy to dispense with you in the Valley of Vrunge had I but known your true identity' - Death's voice had become as shrill as the howling wind - 'THE ETERNAL APPRENTICE!

Realistically, our focus is not yours, and therefore we need to dispense with you.

Guess Father decided to dispense with the ceremony, he thought, in a way glad that it had been done this way.

Much of it has been built from rose-toned sandstone from the Damisi Mountains, suggesting sufficient wealth and technical expertise to dispense with the plascrete ubiquitous to most rim-space colony worlds.

Just like Dad, he thought, to dispense with preliminaries and speak his mind bluntly.

He was not, God forfend, a precog, but there were also tunes when a man simply had to dispense with rational thought and its consequences.

At night she was able to dispense with the dark shades which during the day were necessary to protect eyes grown sensitive with age.

Four or five of those in the box with Symeonis were aristocrats who saw themselves as having cause to dispense with an inde­.

Not only do patients have trust in the doctor that sticks to the good old-fashioned remedies, but it also enables me to dispense with the tedious and laborious necessity of keeping abreast of all the latest developments.