Crossword clues for dispensation
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dispensation \Dis`pen*sa"tion\, n. [F. dispensation, L. dispensatio.]
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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.
To respect the dispensations of Providence.
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That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed; especially (Theol.), A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man.
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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.).
A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry.
--Ward.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Old French despensacion (12c., Modern French dispensation), or directly from Latin dispensationem (nominative dispensatio) "management, charge," noun of action from past participle stem of dispensare (see dispense). Theological sense is from the use of the word to translate Greek oikonomoia "office, method of administration."
Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed 3 A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations. 4 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.).
WordNet
n. an exemption from some rule or obligation
a share that has been dispensed or distributed
the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
Wikipedia
Dispensation may refer to:
- Dispensation (canon law), the suspension, by competent authority, of general rules of law in particular cases in the Catholic Church
- (Common law) The former power of an English king to not apply a law in individual cases. See Sir Edward Hales, 3rd Baronet.
- Dispensation (period), a period in history according to various religions
- Dispensation (album), an album by Jimsaku
- Dispensation of the fulness of times, a concept in Mormon doctrine
- Dispensationalism
- Dispensationalist theology
In the jurisprudence of canon law of the Catholic Church, a dispensation is the exemption from the immediate obligation of law in certain cases. Its object is to modify the hardship often arising from the rigorous application of general laws to particular cases, and its essence is to preserve the law by suspending its operation in such cases.
In Christianity, one meaning of the term dispensation is as a distinctive arrangement or period in history that forms the framework through which God relates to mankind.
Usage examples of "dispensation".
Grundyism, less Comstockery, and, at the same time, less dirty Don-Juanism, less of that curiously malignant and vengeful love-making so characteristic of the debauchee under a Christian dispensation.
Williams in concluding that under the old Fijian dispensation there were few indeed that were saved.
As evidence of Medicean forethought he had come armed with all necessary holy dispensations, civil permits, writs, blessings and the like, enough spiritual and bureaucratic armament to have wed two Barbary apes on short notice had such a union appeared desirable.
At the same time the moral reforms of Trent were laxly carried out, for while decrees enforcing them were promulgated by Sixtus with one hand, with the other he sold dispensations and privileges.
But it seems that an excommunicate cannot confer a sacrament of the Church: since he is separated from the Church, to whose ministry the dispensation of the sacraments belongs.
He was required to examine the details of all crimes committed within his zone of Appalachia, and to make recommendations for dispensation.
The only dispensation I have asked and obtained, has been respecting circumcision, although it can hardly be called so, because, at my age, it might have proved dangerous.
For my part, I believe that he died of grief at not being able to do anything for the unfortunate woman, who afterwards procured a dispensation from her vows from the Pope, and having got married is now living at Padua without any position in society.
In particular, the neighbors could be offered special trade dispensations, greater support from international financial institutions, or even direct foreign aid.
The reputation of all you invincible Stinkers would be gone forever, a legend shattered and the superiority of a new dispensation established forever.
These suppositions and theories had been perking in his head, subconsciously, for days since the incident in the Hall of Dispensation.
How strange, how strange a dispensation of Providence it duz seem, that some women love some men, and vicy versey and the same.
I gave the curate the dispensation, and the handsome features of Christine shone with joy.
Holy Father a dispensation for a worthy and virtuous girl, so as to give her the privilege of marrying during Lent in the church of her village.
His delight and his surprise were intense when I told him that my wedding present to Christine was a dispensation from the Pope for her to be married in Lent.