dispense

• vt. 割り当てる、分配する；免除する；実行する
• vi. 免除する、免除する

dis-、分ける、分散させる。-pens、吊るす、量る、語源的にはpendulum、poundと同じ。

dispense

dispense: [14] Dispense comes ultimately from Latin dispendere ‘weigh out’ (partial source of English spend). This was a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘away’ and pendere ‘weigh’, a relative of pendēre ‘hang’, from which English gets pendulum, pendant, and penthouse. It had a derivative, dispensāre, denoting repeated action: hence ‘pay out, distribute’, senses which passed into English via Old French dispenser. In medieval Latin dispensāre also came to mean ‘administer justice’, and hence ‘exempt, condone’; this was the source of the English usage dispense with ‘do without’.
=> pendulum, pendant, penthouse, spend

dispense (v.)

early 14c., from Old French dispenser "give out" (13c.), from Latin dispensare "disburse, administer, distribute (by weight)," frequentative of dispendere "pay out," from dis- "out" (see dis-) + pendere "to pay, weigh" (see pendant).

In Medieval Latin, dispendere was used in the ecclesiastical sense of "grant license to do what is forbidden or omit what is required" (a power of popes, bishops, etc.), and thus acquired a sense of "grant remission from punishment or exemption from law," hence "to do away with" (1570s), "do without" (c. 1600). Older sense is preserved in dispensary. Related: Dispensed; dispensing.

1. For two weeks，the cash machine was unable to dispense money.

このATMは2週間現金を提供できませんでした。

2.We 'd dispense with charity drives.

慈善寄付運動はしません。

3.I can dispense with this dictionary.

私はこの辞書を持っていなくてもいい。

4.It 's all part of a conspiracy to dispense with the towncentre all together and move everything out to Meadowhall.

都心を完全に捨ててすべてのものをメドホールショッピングセンターに運ぶのは、完全に陰謀の一部だ。

5.We cannot dispense with the idea of the speed of light.

光速という概念を廃棄することはできません。