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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Dispensation \Dis`pen*sa"tion\, n. [F. dispensation, L. dispensatio.] 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. To respect the dispensations of Providence. --Burke. 2. 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. --Rogers. 3. 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: dispensation n 1: an exemption from some rule or obligation 2: a share that has been dispensed or distributed 3: the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) [syn: {dispensing}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Dispensation (Gr. oikonomia "management," "economy"). (1.) The method or scheme according to which God carries out his purposes towards men is called a dispensation. There are usually reckoned three dispensations, the Patriarchal, the Mosaic or Jewish, and the Christian. (See {COVENANT}, Administration of.) These were so many stages in God's unfolding of his purpose of grace toward men. The word is not found with this meaning in Scripture. (2.) A commission to preach the gospel (1 Cor. 9:17; Eph. 1:10; 3:2; Col. 1:25). Dispensations of Providence are providential events which affect men either in the way of mercy or of judgement.
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