Definition of "dispense with" []

• Forgo or do or go without (verb)
• Do without or cease to hold or adhere to (verb)
• Give up what is not strictly needed (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "He was accused of sometimes smiling during religious services no doubt during a reverie, of being a firm friend of that outrageous Hume, of not holding Sunday classes on Christian evidences, of petitioning the Senatus Academicus for permission to dispense with prayers on the opening of class, and of delivering prayers that smacked of a certain “natural religion.”"
• "He felt he could dispense with most of the Greek troops in his army and cast aside the facade that this was a campaign of Panhellenic liberation."
• "I had just received a letter from Jack Kean—“a man with a mustache”—saying he would like to get together, and he urged me to dispense with my engagement."