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despenser2 (s.xiiim)
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despenser2 (s.xiiim)

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dispenser  
  FEW:  dispensare 3,98a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  dispenser 9,392a TL: ∅ DEAF:  dispenser  DMF:  dispenser  TLF: ∅ OED:  dispense v.  MED:  dispensen v.  DMLBS:  dispensare 688c

v.trans.

1to dispense: 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiim )  envoiastes les apostles par tot le mund pur despenser les sacremenz  HALES 217.20
2to absolve (from): 
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  le dit meastre Johan [de Wyclyff] comensa a declarer avaunt les comunes [...] qe Dieu mesmes ne purroit despenser de dett  Anon Chr1 123.35
( 1402 )  le Roi [...] voet dispenser par sa discretion [...]  Rot Parl1 iii 491
This is an AND2 Phase 1 (A-E) entry © 2000-2006 The Anglo-Norman Dictionary. On-line entry partially revised after the print version of AND2 went to press (2007-03-22) The printed edition of AND2 A-E is published by Taylor & Francis for the MHRA, sole owners of the print-media publication rights. All other rights reserved. Digitisation funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the United Kingdom.
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