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▪ I. diˈspensing, vbl. n.
[f. dispense v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb dispense, in various senses: dealing out, distribution, bestowal; administration, management; dispensation; the making up of medicine according to prescription.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 67 As ȝif it were not leful to do profit to mennus soulis wiþ-out dispensynge of anticrist. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xvi. (R.), My Lorde..taketh awai from me the power and office any longer to have the dispensing of his goodes. 1608Hieron Wks. I. 748/2 The faithfull dispensing of Thy truth. 1643Milton Divorce ii. v. (1851) 75 It is a fond perswasion..that dispencing is a favour. 1688Sir E. Herbert Hales' Case 20 Acknowledging this power of Dispensing to be in the King. 1724Swift Reasons agst. Exam. Drugs Wks. 1755 III. i. 126 The power..lodged in the censors of the college of physicians to restrain any of his majesty's subjects from dispensing. 1727Pope Th. on Var. Subj. in Swift's Wks. (1755) II. i. 225 The choice of ladies..in the dispensing of their favours. 1856F. E. Paget Owlet Owlst. 106 Is not..Sparrowgrass too liberal in her own dispensings?
b. attrib. dispensing power, the power of dispensing with or suspending the laws of church or state in special cases.
1621Ld. Williams in Fortesc. Papers 166 This dispensing power were more fitly placed in his Highnes. 1731Swift Presbyt. Plea Merit Wks. (1761) III. 275 The King..encouraged by his Presbyterian friends, went on with his dispensing power. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 135 The dispensing power of the popes was not formally limited. 1874Green Short Hist. ix. §3. 622 His bill to vest a dispensing power in the Crown had been defeated.
▪ II. diˈspensing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That dispenses: see the verb.
1642Rogers Naaman 554 The swarme of Pharisees and dispensing hypocrites. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 168 That they should come down..from the hands of a dispensing despotism. Mod. Take the recipe to a dispensing chemist.
Hence diˈspensingly adv., in a dispensing manner; distributively.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 117 God is rich in all things towards man, and..cannot but dispensingly under one word sometime imply diverse things. |