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"etymology_text": "From Middle English, from Old French dispenser, from Latin dispēnsāre (“to weigh out, pay out, distribute, regulate, manage, control, dispense”), frequentative of dispendere (“to weigh out”), from dis- (“apart”) + pendere (“to weigh”).",
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"tags": [
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}
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"(obsolete) Cost, expenditure."
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"ref": "1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:",
"text": "[…] what euer in this worldly state / Is sweet, and pleasing vnto liuing sense, / Or that may dayntiest fantasie aggrate, / Was poured forth with plentifull dispence […]",
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}
],
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"The act of dispensing, dispensation."
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"(obsolete) The act of dispensing, dispensation."
],
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "cost, expenditure",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Kosten"
},
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"code": "de",
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"feminine"
],
"word": "Ausgabe"
}
],
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}
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