Definition of "dispensed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of dispense. (verb)

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• "Martin dispensed royal largess, inviting everybody up, farm-hands, a stableman, and the gardener's assistant from the hotel, the barkeeper, and the furtive hobo who slid in like a shadow and like a shadow hovered at the end of the bar."
• "In Maryland, it is illegal to sell condoms from vending machines with one exception: Prophylactics may be dispensed from a vending machine only ‘in places where alcoholic beverages are sold for consumption on the premises.’"
• "When the ale is dispensed from the cask, air is allowed into the cask."