Dispenso, as, âre. Colum. To lay out money: to dispence: to giue licence to doe: to distribute according to the proportion of a thing.Dispensare suecum æqua portione. Col. Dispensare atque disponere ordine.Cic.Dispensare aliquid in varias partes. Sen. To dillribute.Oscula dispensat uatos suprema per omnes.Ouid.Shee kysseth al the chidren as often one as another.Dispensare res domesticas.Cicer.To dispose or set in order.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
dis-penso, āvi, ātum, 1, v. freq. a.I. Orig. of money, to distribute by weight, todisburse, pay out (for syn. cf.: partior, impertio, distribuo, divido): ducentos nummos (sc. inter milites), Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 47.—B. In gen., to manage, regulate household expenses: domesticas res, Cic. Att. 11, 1; cf. Juv. 7, 219: eligere aliquem ad dispensandam pecuniam,
to have charge of the military chest
, Nep. Con. 4.—Absol.: dispensat pueris vilicus,
distributes rations
, Mart. 12, 18, 22.—II.Transf., of other things, to dispense, distribute, arrange (for syn. cf.: dispono, digero, ordino, compono). A.Lit.: (fons) certis horarum spatiis dispensatur inter incolas, Plin. 18, 22, 51, 188; Front. Aquaed. 9; Plin. 13, 13, 27, 89: vitis aequa portione sucum proli suae dispensat, Col. 4, 24, 9: oscula suprema natos per omnes, Ov. M. 6, 278 (cf.: dividit oscula, Hor. C. 1, 36, 6): filum candelae, Juv. 3, 287: quem (annum) intercalaribus mensibus interponendis ita dispensavit (Numa), ut, etc., Liv. 1, 19 fin.—B.Trop., to manage, regulate, control, distribute: inventa non solum ordine, sed etiam momento quodam atque judicio dispensare atque componere, Cic. de Or. 1, 31, 142: quasi dispensare rem publicam et in ea quodam modo vilicare, id. Rep. 5, 3, 5; Just. 7, 6, 4: laetitiam inter impotentes populi animos, i. e.
to impart to them by degrees
, Liv. 27, 50 fin.: male dispensata libertas, Sen. Ben. 1, 10: quae dispensant mortalia fata sorores, Ov. H. 12, 3 et saep.: consilium dispensandae cohonestandaeque victoriae imperatoribus majores dederunt nostri (qs. to arrange as the general's manager; the fig. acc. to I. B., v. also dispensator), Liv. 38, 47.—Absol.: si modo recte dispensare velis, to dispense, arrange ( = administrare), Hor. S. 1, 2, 75.