dispense

verb

stop some action
distribute

Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /dɪˈspɛns/ / /dɪˈspens/

noun

Etymology: 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”).

Cost, expenditure.
The act of dispensing, dispensation.
“[…] 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 […]”

verb

To issue, distribute, or give out.
“He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company.”
“The smoky spray seemed to trap whatever light there was and to dispense it subtly.”
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
“to dispense justice”
“While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.”
To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
“The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.”
“An optician can dispense spectacles.”
To give a dispensation to (someone); to excuse.
“After his victories, he often gave them the reines to all licenciousnesse, for a while dispencing them from all rules of military discipline[…].”
“Of evils the first and greatest is, that hereby a most absurd and rash imputation is fixt upon God and his holy Laws, of conniving and dispensing with open and common adultery among his chosen people; a thing which the rankest politician would think it shame and disworship, that his Laws should countenance; how and in what manner this comes to passe, I shall reserve, till the course of method brings on the unfolding of many Scriptures.”
To compensate; to make up; to make amends.
“One loving howre / For many yeares of sorrow can dispence”
“His synne was dispensed with golde, wherof it was compensed”