VERB
- forgo or do or go without
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give up what is not strictly needed
he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey -
do without or cease to hold or adhere to
We are dispensing with formalities
relinquish the old ideas
How To Use dispense with In A Sentence
- The principal benefit is that we dispense with any assumptions regarding the size or distribution of the uncompensated pseudorange errors.
- Yes folks its that time of year again, whereby as a dutiful parent I oblige my responsibility to dispense with two hours of valuable time to go and watch the Junior School Nativity play.
- And you can even dispense with bottled water - the Pelion water is renowned for its purity and perfectly drinkable.
- Ages, or among the Iroquois and Algonquins, make men dispense with corslets, even when the shield was worn, as in Homer, slung round the neck by a _telamon_ (_guige_ in Old French), belt, or baldric. Homer and His Age
- At his best, Reynolds manages simultaneously to acclaim and to dispense with the trappings of fame.
- I am now recovering well and have managed to dispense with my crutches.
- Their function was to advise the monarch and if he chose to dispense with their advice, so be it.
- To conclude all: That man that can dispense with himself, as to moral duties, that makes no conscience of telling a lie, or breaking his word; what badge soever he may wear, what title soever he may call himself by, it is as impossible that such a man should be a true The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
- Certain notions about the inefficacy of alarms had made him dispense with one. OUTCAST
- After settling in Weimar he initially used the minor composers August Conradi and Raff as amanuenses and orchestration assistants, though later he acquired enough experience to dispense with any help.
