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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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..
Undispensable :: Undispensable (a.) Not to be freed by 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..
Dispensative :: Dispensative (a.) Granting dispensation.
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..
Undispensed :: Undispensed (a.) Not freed by dispensation.
Dispensatory :: Dispensatory (v. t.) Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations..
Dispensatorily :: Dispensatorily (adv.) In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.
Indispensable :: Indispensable (a.) Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption.
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed.
Cession :: Cession (n.) The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.
Dispense :: Dispense (v. i.) To give 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..
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.)..
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.
Dispensation :: Dispensation (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations..
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..
Dispense :: Dispense (v. t.) Dispensation; exemption.
Dispensatively :: Dispensatively (adv.) By dispensation.
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