† diˈspensible, a. Obs.
[repr. L. type *dispensibilis, f. ppl. stem of dispendĕre: see dispend.]
= dispensable 1, 2.
| 1661 Petit. for Peace 5 Things dispensible, and..unnecessary. 1688 Sir E. Herbert Hales' Case 22 If any Penal Laws were..less Dispensible than others. 1689 W. Atwood Ld. Herbert's Acc. Examined 51 He makes all things not forbid by God's Law to be dispensible by the King. 1766 T. Amory Buncle (1770) IV. 19 Every rule is dispensible, and must give way when it defeats the end for which it was appointed. |
Hence † diˈspensibly adv.
| 1711 Peace in Divinity 15 There is a keeping them [the Commandments] perfectly and indispensably, which is the Condition of the Law; and a keeping them sincerely and dispensibly, with the Relaxation of that Severity, thro' Faith in Christ, which is the Condition of the Gospel. |