Definition:
- (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.
- (n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
- (n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
- (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.).
Compare dispensation with other words:
compensation vs. dispensation
dispensation vs. disposition
allocation vs. dispensation
dispensation vs. immune
dispensation vs. undispensed
dispensation vs. dispensatorily
dispensation vs. dispensatively
dispensation vs. dispensatory
dispensation vs. exempt
dispensation vs. distribution
dispensation vs. exemption
dispensable vs. dispensation
dispensation vs. indispensable
dispensation vs. dispense
dispensation vs. penitentiary
dispensation vs. kiosk
dispensation vs. enjoined