Defn: To drive away by scattering, or so to cause to vanish; to clear away; to banish; to dissipate; as, to dispel a cloud, vapors, cares, doubts, illusions. [Satan] gently raised their fainting courage, and dispelled their fears. Milton. I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. Dryden.
DISPENCE
Dis*pence", v. i. & n.
Defn: See Dispense. [Obs.]
DISPEND
Dis*pend", v. t. Etym: [OF. despendre, L. dispendere to weigh out,
dispense; dis- + pendere to weigh. See Pension, Spend, and cf.
Dispense.]
Defn: To spend; to lay out; to expend. [Obs.] Spenser.
Able to dispend yearly twenty pounds and above. Fuller.
DISPENDER
Dis*pend"er, n.
Defn: One who dispends or expends; a steward. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Cor. iv. 1).
DISPENSABLE
Dis*pen"sa*ble, a. Etym: [LL. dispensabilis. See Dispense.]
1. Capable of being dispensed or administered.
2. Capable of being dispensed with. Coleridge.