- an act or instance of dispensing; distribution.
- something that is distributed or given out.
- a certain order, system, or arrangement; administration or management.
- Theology.
- the divine ordering of the affairs of the world.
- an appointment, arrangement, or favor, as by God.
- a divinely appointed order or age: the old Mosaic, or Jewish, dispensation; the new gospel, or Christian, dispensation.
- a dispensing with, doing away with, or doing without something.
- Roman Catholic Church.
- a relaxation of law in a particular case granted by a competent superior or the superior's delegate in laws that the superior has the power to make and enforce: a dispensation regarding the Lenten fast.
- an official document authorizing such a relaxation of law.
- the act of distributing or dispensing
- something distributed or dispensed
- a system or plan of administering or dispensing
- mainly RC Church
- permission to dispense with an obligation of church law
- the document authorizing such permission
- any exemption from a rule or obligation
- Christianity
- the ordering of life and events by God
- a divine decree affecting an individual or group
- a religious system or code of prescriptions for life and conduct regarded as of divine origin
