dispensary
[dih-spen-suh-ree]
- a place where something is dispensed, especially medicines.
- a charitable or public facility where medicines are furnished and free or inexpensive medical advice is available.
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Origin of dispensary
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Contemporary Examples
This year, the dispensary is launching its sale on Thanksgiving, carrying over into Black Friday.
Thus far, the most talked-about Green Friday hotspot is Denver dispensary the Grass Station.
Few applicants had a location nailed down to accommodate their indoor cultivation and dispensary needs.
But the dispensary business is built on fictions that make it almost inherently non-law-abiding.
Historical Examples
At present there is no dispensary on the island but there are a number of "blind tigers."
The Negro FarmerCarl Kelsey
There was no mill there then, nor a school-house, no, nor a dispensary either!
The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)Charles James Lever
Its influence also was strongly used against a Dispensary Bill.
Lower on the hillside they had built a dispensary and hospital.
In the Forbidden LandArnold Henry Savage Landor
Then I conveyed him by easy stages to Gunji, where I have a dispensary, and attended to him.
In the Forbidden LandArnold Henry Savage Landor
dispensary
- a place where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed
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Word Origin and History for dispensary
n.
"place for weighing out medicines," 1690s, from Medieval Latin dispensarius "one who dispenses," from Latin dispensare (see dispense).
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
dispensary
(dĭ-spĕn′sə-rē)- An office in a hospital or other institution from which medical supplies and medicines are dispensed.
- A public institution that dispenses medicines or medical aid.
- An outpatient department of a hospital.
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