Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-PENS'ING
DIS-PENS'ING, ppr.
- Distributing; administering.
- adj. That may dispense with; granting dispensation; that may grant license to omit what is required by law, or to do what the law forbids; as, a dispensing power.
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