Dispensation
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English
Noun
Dispensation (plural Dispensations)- 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.
- That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
- A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
- 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.).
Adjectives for Dispensation
benign; critical; merciful; mysterious; special; divine; providential; heavenly; frugal; afflicting; artistic; favorable.
Verbs for Dispensation
administer—; allow—; arrange—; claim—; conduct—; deliver—; deserve—; grant—; manage—; obtain—; order—; provide—; receive—; require—; reward with—; seek—; sue for—; undertake—; urge—; warrant—; —distributes; —pardons; —releases.
Thesaurus
OK, abandonment, abjuration, administration, admission, allowance, attenuation, blank check, broadcast, broadcasting, carte blanche, cession, charter, circumfusion, civil government, command function, consent, copyright, courtesy, creation, decision-making, diffraction, diffusion, dilution, direction, disbursal, disbursement, discipline, dispersal, dispersion, disposal, disposition, dissemination, dissipation, distribution, divergence, dole, doling, doling out, dumping, empery, empire, evaporation, executive function, expansion, favor, forgoing, form of government, forswearing, fragmentation, franchise, freedom, getting rid of, giving out, giving up, governance, government, grant, immunity, indulgence, issuance, kindness, leave, letting go, liberty, license, management, officiation, okay, oversight, passing around, patent, paying out, peppering, permission, permission to enter, political organization, polity, preservation, privilege, propagation, providence, publication, radiation, recantation, regime, regimen, regnancy, regulation, reign, release, relinquishment, renunciation, resignation, retraction, riddance, rule, sacrifice, scattering, scatterment, service, shotgun pattern, sovereignty, sowing, spattering, special favor, special permission, splay, spread, spreading, sprinkling, strewing, supervision, surrender, sway, swearing off, system of government, ticket, ticket of admission, visitations of providence, volatilization, vouchsafement, waiver, warrant, yielding
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
