'Dispensation' definitions:
Definition of 'dispensation'
From: WordNet
noun
An exemption from some rule or obligation
noun
A share that has been dispensed or distributed
noun
The act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
Definition of 'Dispensation'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- To respect the dispensations of Providence. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Neither are God's methods or intentions different in his dispensations to each private man. --Rogers. [1913 Webster]
- 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.). [1913 Webster]
- A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to marry. --Ward. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dispensation'
From: Easton
- Dispensation (Gr. oikonomia, "management," "economy").
- 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.
- 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.
Synonyms of 'dispensation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- OK,
- 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