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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Dispense :: Dispense (v. i.) To give 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..
Visitation :: Visitation (n.) Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment..
Indulto :: Indulto (n.) A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.
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..
Undispensed :: Undispensed (a.) Not freed by dispensation.
Dispensatory :: Dispensatory (v. t.) Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations..
Legal :: Legal (a.) According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses.
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed.
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.)..
Dispensative :: Dispensative (a.) Granting dispensation.
Faculty :: Faculty (n.) Privilege or permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation..
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..
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..
Dispense :: Dispense (v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.
Indispensable :: Indispensable (a.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption.
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..
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..
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..
Dispensatorily :: Dispensatorily (adv.) In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
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