- 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.).
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