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Bible Dictionaries
Dispensation
Webster's Dictionary
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(1):
(n.) 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):
(n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
(3):
(n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
(4):
(n.) 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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Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Dispensation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/dispensation.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Dispensation'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/d/dispensation.html. 1828.
