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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Dispensatorily :: Dispensatorily (adv.) In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
Indispensable :: Indispensable (a.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption.
Undispensable :: Undispensable (a.) Not to be freed by dispensation.
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..
Dispense :: Dispense (v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.
Legal :: Legal (a.) According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses.
Indulto :: Indulto (n.) A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.
Cession :: Cession (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation..
Antinomian :: Antinomian (n.) One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535..
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..
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..
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..
Administration :: Administration (n.) The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament..
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..
Dispensatory :: Dispensatory (v. t.) Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations..
Dispensatively :: Dispensatively (adv.) By dispensation.
Dispense :: Dispense (v. i.) To give dispensation.
Dispensative :: Dispensative (a.) Granting dispensation.
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed.
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