Meaning

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution.

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution
2. The distribution of good and evil by God to man.
3. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone
4. A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy
5. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.

Example Sentences

a fair dispensation of money

The public's health is hardly improved by compounding the existing problem with the dispensation of undocumented, partially true or totally false material.

Shall we not accompt theſe a part of Gods dispenſation, and therefore good in the Fountaine, from whence they flowed

Bowman certainly lost no time in travelling south to obtain his dispensation once he had published the sermon

the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations

The sacrificial death of the Lord Jesus Christ introduced the dispensation of pure grace—which means undeserved favor, or God GIVING righteousness, instead of God REQUIRING righteousness, as under Law.[…] The first event in the closing of this dispensation will be the descent of the Lord from Heaven, when sleeping saints will be raised and, together with believers then living, caught up “to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.” 1 Thess. 4: 16, 17.

We returned to our places, these Kingdoms, But no longer at ease here, in the old dispensation, With an alien people clutching their gods.

Special grounds for giving dispensation to see classified documents include research purposes.

Word Forms

• dispensations

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