Definition of dispensation

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Dispensation (n.) The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration..

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Cession :: Cession (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
Indulto :: Indulto (n.) A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.
Undispensed :: Undispensed (a.) Not freed by dispensation.
Dispensatorily :: Dispensatorily (adv.) In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
Dispensatory :: Dispensatory (v. t.) Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations..
Enter :: Enter (v. t.) To pass within the limits of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation..
Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An office of the papal court which examines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope..
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed.
Office :: Office (n.) A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new..
Dispensative :: Dispensative (a.) Granting dispensation.
Indispensable :: Indispensable (a.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption.
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration..
Thanksgiving :: Thanksgiving (n.) A public acknowledgment or celebration of divine goodness; also, a day set apart for religious services, specially to acknowledge the goodness of God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties..
Marcionite :: Marcionite (n.) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation..
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations..
Dispense :: Dispense (v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation..
Dispensatively :: Dispensatively (adv.) By dispensation.
Dispense :: Dispense (v. i.) To give dispensation.
Undispensable :: Undispensable (a.) Not to be freed by dispensation.
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