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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.
  • (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.).

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