Definition of "dispensary"

A place or room where something is dispensed, particularly

1. (dated) Synonym of pharmacy, particularly one included in a hospital that does not act as a point of sale.  quotations  examples

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   • He watched for a while, pacing the small, slippery cobbles, then made for the deep shade of a stone porch on the other side of the square, where a sheet with a red cross on it had been draped around a pillar. A two-wheeled field dispensary with no driver stood outside the building.

     1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, page 120

2. An institution that dispenses medical supplies and advice.  examples

3. A retail establishment that sells marijuana and related supplies to customers with a prescription to use it for medical purposes.  examples