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to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration. To respect the dispensations of Providence. Burke.

The act of administering, or tendering something to another; dispensation; as, the administration of a medicine, of an oath, of justice, or of the sacrament.

One who maintains that, under the gospel dispensation, the moral law is of no use or obligation, but that faith alone is necessary to salvation. The sect of Antinomians originated with John Agricola, in Germany, about the year 1535. Mosheim.

The giving up or vacating a benefice by accepting another without a proper dispensation.

Granting dispensation.

By dispensation. Wotton.

In the way of dispensation; dispensatively.

Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. "Dispensatory power." Bp. Rainbow.

To give dispensation. He [the pope] can also dispense in all matters of ecclesiastical law. Addis & Arnold (Cath. Dict. ) To dispense with. (a) To permit the neglect or omission of, as a form, a ceremony, an oath; to suspend the operation of, as a law; to give up, release, or do without, as services, attention, etc.; t…

its of; to attain; to begin; to commence upon; as, to enter one's teens, a new era, a new dispensation.

permission, granted by favor or indulgence, to do a particular thing; authority; license; dispensation. The pope . . . granted him a faculty to set him free from his promise. Fuller. It had not only faculty to inspect all bishops' dioceses, but to change what laws and statutes they should think fit to alter among the c…

Not admitting dispensation; not subject to release or exemption. [R.] The law was moral and indispensable. Bp. Burnet.

A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.

According to the old or Mosaic dispensation; in accordance with the law of Moses

ther wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation. Brande & C.

rmance of what is prescribed; adherence in practice; observance. [Obs.] We are to procure dispensation or leave to omit the observation of it in such circumstances. Jer. Taylor.

t, of a sacred nature, conferred by God himself; as, the office of a priest under the old dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new. Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office. Rom. xi. 13.

of Cross. -- Patriarchal dispensation, the divine dispensation under which the patriarchs lived before the law given by Moses.

ines cases of conscience, confession, absolution from vows, etc., and delivers decisions, dispensations, etc. Its chief is a cardinal, called the Grand Penitentiary, appointed by the pope.

f God, either in any remarkable deliverance from calamities or danger, or in the ordinary dispensation of his bounties.