dispense

1. (particularly in canon law) To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.Examples: "After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline[…]."; "Of evils the first and greatest is, that hereby a most absurd and rash imputation is fixt upon God and his holy Laws, of conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery among his chosen people; a thing which the rankest politician would think it shame and disworship, that his Laws should countenance; how and in what manner this comes to passe, I shall reserve, till the course of method brings on the unfolding of many Scriptures."; "1779–81, Samuel Johnson, "Richard Savage" in Lives of the Most Eminent English Poet He appeared to think himself born to be supported by others, and dispensed from all necessity of providing for himself."

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To compensate; to make up; to make amends.Examples: "One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence"; "His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed"intransitiveobsolete