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dispensator

[ dis-puhn-sey-ter, -pen- ]

noun

, Obsolete.
  1. a person who dispenses; distributor; administrator.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dispensator1

1350–1400; Middle English dispensatour < Medieval Latin dispēnsātor, Latin: manager, steward, equivalent to dispēnsā ( re ) ( dispense ) + -tor -tor

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Example Sentences

A slave called the dispensator was the manager of this business.

His meaning, though clumsily expressed, as was sometimes the case, is that the Latin 'Dispensator' represented the name 'Marmion'.

What was the actual relation of the Marmions to Robert 'Dispensator' is a problem as yet unsolved.

The seal of Turstan Dispensator Regis, about 1210, shows the heater-pear with the upper corners slightly varied.

She is there with Ursus, who goes as before to the miller, a namesake of thy dispensator Demas.

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