VERB
- forgo or do or go without
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give up what is not strictly needed
he asked if they could spare one of their horses to speed his journey -
do without or cease to hold or adhere to
We are dispensing with formalities
relinquish the old ideas
How To Use dispense with In A Sentence
- One reason for the easing in the logjam was the Senate's traditional desire to dispense with blocs of nominees shortly before adjourning for recess, which the Senate did in the early hours of Friday morning. Federal Posts Fill Up Amid Senate Thaw
- Like I said. kornbelt888: That, however, does not dispense with the problem of the ultimate ontological question of what is primary, self-existent. Dawkins and ID
- At least one of our readers would prefer that The Sports Reporter and I dispense with the pre-review chit-chat and get down to the nitty-gritty when we write about our tandem dining-out experiences.
- the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other major museums, was often called "nonobjective cinema," a term used to describe movies that dispense with representation and immerse the viewer in a meditative world of pure unspooling form. NYT > Home Page
- The introduction of compound engines in the 1870s made it possible for seagoing warships to dispense with masts and sails.
- Democratic republics can no more dispense with national idols than monarchies with public functionaries.
- Christianity can dispense with ‘cosmologies and systems’ as love abides and descends into mundane existence.
- In assisting the bishop they dispense with the cuculla, and wear the almuce over the surplice. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
- Being able to dispense with the services of an interpreter is a big incentive to fluency.
- We can quickly dispense with the crude mythology, but I like the concept of apparent failure.
