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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.


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              To respect the dispensations of Providence. --Burke.
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     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.
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              Neither are God's methods or intentions different in
              his dispensations to each private man. --Rogers.
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     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.).
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              A dispensation was obtained to enable Dr. Barrow to
              marry.                                --Ward.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dispensation
       n 1: an exemption from some rule or obligation
       2: a share that has been dispensed or distributed
       3: the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "dispensation":
     OK, 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, 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
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Dispensation
     (Gr. oikonomia, "management," "economy"). (1.) 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.
     
       (2.) 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.
     

















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