Meanings
verbdispence (third-person singular simple present dispences, present participle dispencing, simple past and past participle dispenced)
present singular third person dispences · participle present dispencing · participle past dispenced · past dispenced
- obsoleteObsolete form of dispense.
And like a lion wood amongst them fares, Dealing his dreadfull blowes with large dispence
1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
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