dispence

English

Verb

dispence (third-person singular simple present dispences, present participle dispencing, simple past and past participle dispenced)

1. Obsolete form of dispense.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     And like a lion wood amongst them fares,
     Dealing his dreadfull blowes with large dispence

Anagrams

• pendices, spicened