Meanings (ES + gloss)
administrar • impartir
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
While you dispense the laws, and guide the state.
to dispense justice
dispensar
To supply or make up a medicine or prescription.
An optician can dispense spectacles.
The pharmacist dispensed my tablets.
dispensar
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 amon…
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