Definition of dispensation

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Dispensation (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations..

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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..
Dispense :: Dispense (v. i.) To give dispensation.
Vocation :: Vocation (n.) The bestowment of God's distinguishing grace upon a person or nation, by which that person or nation is put in the way of salvation; as, the vocation of the Jews under the old dispensation, and of the Gentiles under the gospel..
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.)..
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..
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed.
Indispensable :: Indispensable (a.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption.
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..
Dispensative :: Dispensative (a.) Granting 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..
Indulto :: Indulto (n.) A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.
Undispensed :: Undispensed (a.) Not freed by dispensation.
Visitation :: Visitation (n.) Special dispensation; communication of divine favor and goodness, or, more usually, of divine wrath and vengeance; retributive calamity; retribution; judgment..
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.
Dispensatorily :: Dispensatorily (adv.) In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
Undispensable :: Undispensable (a.) Not to be freed by dispensation.
Dispense :: Dispense (v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.
Dispensatively :: Dispensatively (adv.) By dispensation.
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