(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.).
Example Sentences:
(1) With the flat-fee system, drug charges are not recorded when the drug is dispensed by the pharmacy; data for charging doses are obtained directly from the MAR forms generated by the nursing staff.
(2) The surgical procedure, using a dispensable tendon, could be directly associated to the sutures of the proximal injuries of the cubital nerve as a temporary palliative.
(3) Thus, phosphorylation and the 25 carboxy-terminal amino acids appear to be dispensable for protein function.
(4) Those behind it have once again taken the law into their own hands and dispensed a vile form of rough justice.
(5) He was greeted in Kyoto by Abe, with the men dispensing with the formal handshake that starts most head of governments' greetings in favour of a full body hug.
(6) Because contact lenses present a management problem, this method of dispensation will be used only for selected cases.
(7) I have no experience of an actual car club, but I don't see how you can lose by dispensing with it, unless you live somewhere with very poor public transport.
(8) Thus the private sector, which is far from being saturated, has sufficient knowledge available and dispenses care ethically in agreement with institutional recommendations.
(9) A rapid gas chromatographic method has been developed which dispenses with separation operations and measures oxalic acid as a diethylester by means of back-flushing, and using malonic acid as an internal standard.
(10) These two genetic elements are separated by approximately 3,000 bp of R6K sequences which are dispensable for alpha origin activity.
(11) These data suggest that RAP1 is a central regulator of both telomere and chromosome stability and define a C-terminal domain that, while dispensable for viability, is required for these telomeric functions.
(12) There were no differences in the number of voids in the automixed material dispensed using the intra-oral tip or impression syringe.
(13) Regarding the latter problem, a revised method which dispenses with recording paper is under consideration.
(14) Deletion analysis of the LTR indicates that upstream promoter and enhancer elements are dispensible for trans-activation, while sequences 3' of the RNA start site displaying strict orientation and position dependence are required.
(15) Other "speech" regions in the left hemisphere appeared to be dispensable for the production of single oral movements, whether these were verbal or nonverbal movements.
(16) Duodenal flows of total, indispensible and dispensible amino acids were increased (P less than .05) when steers were fed SBM treatments compared with UC, and greater (P less than .05) when steers were fed ET compared with NT.
(17) Oral and rectal dispension of large quantities of the lethal factor does not induce toxic symptoms in rodents.
(18) I don't know much about gardening, but barstool footcare advice I can dispense.
(19) The time and paperwork involved in dispensing by a physician cannot be considered as minimal interruptions in normal office procedure.
(20) It also examined the needs of dispensers of care and relatives (whether mourning or not) of these persons.
Penitentiary
Definition:
(a.) Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
(a.) Expressive of penitence; as, a penitentiary letter.
(a.) Used for punishment, discipline, and reformation.
(n.) One who prescribes the rules and measures of penance.
(n.) One who does penance.
(n.) A small building in a monastery where penitents confessed.
(n.) That part of a church to which penitents were admitted.
(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.
(n.) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.
(n.) A house of correction, in which offenders are confined for punishment, discipline, and reformation, and in which they are generally compelled to labor.
Example Sentences:
(1) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(2) An earlier major exhibition of Ai Weiwei’s work, held inside Alcatraz island penitentiary in the San Francisco bay, featured works made out of the plastic construction toys.
(3) He commented: “I’m talking about my experiences of walking into a penitentiary that I would see in a movie like Shawshank Redemption , because it was an old prison.
(4) Two hundred and seventy-five Canadian Federal Penitentiary inmates from 9 institutions participated in a 3-hour assessment consisting of a structured interview and a batter of self-report tests to determine key social and demographic characteristics; type, frequency, and extent of substance use prior to incarceration; previous treatment for substance abuse; criminal history; and perceived relationship of criminal behavior to substance use.
(5) This was the image of the former News International chief executive mocked up as a Page 3 girl which recently led to a long-time subscriber in a US penitentiary having his copy confiscated on obscenity grounds.
(6) The epidemiologic situation for tuberculosis in the penitentiary-labour establishments at the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs was subjected to a comprehensive analysis with subsequent discussion of the results at a meeting of the staff of the Ministry of Public Health; instruction and plan of measures to be taken have been compiled by both ministries; a permanent board has been instituted for rendering help to medical workers of the penitentiary establishments; all law-protective organs have been involved in tuberculosis control; a specialized institution has been set up with a hospital for 200 beds intended for skilled examination and treatment of patients.
(7) On Wednesday night, 53 prisoners escaped from the Barreto Campelo penitentiary after explosives were used to blow a hole in an outer wall.
(8) Televisa also showed concurrent footage of what it said was the control center meant to be monitoring the prisoners in the Altiplano penitentiary not far from Mexico City.
(9) The subsequent and, in particular, the recent building re-structurations, have radically changed the penitentiary in order to make it more in line with the functions required by the present prison policy.
(10) Officials believe Lockett, who was convicted of shooting a 19-year-old woman and ordering a friend to bury her alive, died of a “massive heart attack” 43 minutes after his execution began Tuesday night at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester.
(11) This was a direct contradiction of one official's promise: "I can say one thing: Alyokhina will attend the parole hearing," a spokesman for the federal penitentiary service told the Russian Legal Information Agency on 12 July.
(12) Subjects were 136 male convicted felons in the Kentucky State Penitentiary.
(13) He was born in Hamburg on 21st August 1898 and beheaded in the Plötzensee penitentiary on 13th May 1943.
(14) As a result, the index of tuberculosis morbidity in the republican penitentiary-labour establishments reduced by more than half to promote an improvement of the epidemiologic situation in the republic.
(15) When I got out of the penitentiary (2 ) in 1969, I became a drug counsellor, and dedicated my life to helping other people.
(16) Tuberculosis morbidity in penitentiary-labour establishments (PLE) is scores of times higher than that among the population on the formation of which it has an influence.
(17) Conversely, the Reception Center group scored significantly higher than the Penitentiary group on the primaries, B, C, F, G, N, and Q3.
(18) The present investigation examined lifetime multiple disorders, measured by the DIS, among a representative sample of male penitentiary inmates.
(19) Within 20 seconds of receiving his lethal injection on Jan. 9 at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, 38-year-old Michael Lee Wilson said: “I feel my whole body burning.” This statement described “a sensation consistent with receipt of contaminated pentobarbital,” Taylor alleges.
(20) The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence of decayed, missing, and filled teeth among federal male prisoners (aged 21-75) in the US Penitentiary.