dispensationn.

/dɪspɛnˈseɪʃən/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s dys-; -acioun.

Etymology: < French dispensation (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), or < Latin dispensātiōn-em distribution of money or property, management, stewardship, regulation, economy, < dispensāre to dispense v.

I. The action of dealing out or distributing.

1. The action of dispensing or dealing out; distribution or administration to others; expenditure, spending, or disbursement (of money); economical use or disposal (of anything).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun]

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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun]

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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 469 Everych schulde make good for his owne partie, and ȝeve us special helpe and subsidie by his owne dispensacioun.

1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. ii. 3 The dispensation of this grace unto all men.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 49 A Dispensation of Water promiscuously and indifferently to all parts of the Earth.

a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Wealth in Wks. (1707) I. i. 125 Blind in the Dispensation of all our Favours.

1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 191 Elizabeth, a queen well known for her penurious dispensations.

1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism i. 26 Changes in the dispensation of the Lord's Supper.

1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. viii. 439 The dispensation of bribes, places, and pensions.

†2. Anatomy. The distribution of blood, the nerves, etc., from some centre. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > [noun] > distribution of blood

dispensation1668

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. i. 301 But the Principle of Dispensation from whence the Veins arise, is the Liver, and not the Heart.

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. i. 322 The Beginning of the dispensation of Nerves, or the part whence the Nerves immediately arise, is the Medulla oblongata.

1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry ii. ii. 186 This dispensation of the nutritive juices.

3. The process of dispensing medicines or medical prescriptions; ‘the making up of medicines in accordance with prescription, and the delivery of them to the patient’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1883).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > dispensing

dispensation1646

dispensing1724

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. iii. 237 In the due dispensation of medicines desumed from this animall.

1779 S. Johnson Garth in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IV. 6 The physicians procured some apothecaries to undertake the dispensation.

II. The action of administering, ordering, or managing; the system by which things are administered. [This group of senses originates in the Latin use of dispensātio to render Greek οἰκονομία in the New Testament and patristic writers. The latter is used in 1 Corinthians ix. 17, Ephesians iii. 2, Colossians i. 25 for the ‘office of an administrator’ (see sense 4 below); but in Ephesians i. 10, iii. 9, for ‘a method or system of administration’ (specifically that which involved the Incarnation). From this latter arose various theological uses: (1) Tertullian ( Adv. Praxean ii, iii, iv.) uses dispensatio = οἰκονομία to denote the Trinity as an administrative arrangement, i.e. a system of distribution and apportionment of functions designed by the Father for administrative purposes. This is known as an œconomical as distinguished from an essential Trinity: in the latter the personal distinctions are regarded as matters of nature and necessity, in the former of will. (See the distinction between dispensative adj., dispensatory adj., and essential adj.) (2) It was applied to the Incarnation (dispensatio assumpti corporis, d. susceptæ carnis, or simply dispensatio) as the basis or organ of the redemptive system under which humankind now live (Augustine Serm. 264 §5). (3) The evangelical system is termed dispensatio gratiæ in opposition to the Law or system of works (Augustine Ep. 82 §20), while the method of salvation by means of the Incarnation is dispensatio salutis nostrae (Augustine Serm. 237 §1). Hence, in the Latin version of Irenæus, Christ is called dispensator paternae gratiae (iv. 20. 7). (4) Dispensatio was applied to the divine purpose or decree which established the system, and determined its mode of action (Tertullian Adv. Marc. vi. 18, Hilar. Pict. De Trin. ix. 66, xi. 13); also, by Hilary, to the Passion, as the supreme mystery of Redemption.]

4. The orderly administration of things committed to one's charge; the function or office of administrator or steward; stewardship. archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > [noun] > management on behalf of another or stewardship

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c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. ix. 17 Forsoth if I willinge do this thing, I haue mede; sothly if aȝens my wil, dispensacioun is bitake to me.

1482 Monk of Evesham 98 They shulde geue acomtys of her dispensacyon that haue resceyued benefytys and ryches of the chyrche.

1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. C.viii^v I haue taken at my fathers hande the dispensacion of redemyng mankynd.

1647 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 197 According to the will of him whose steward I am, and to whom I must give an accompt of the dispensacion of that which he hath committed vnto me.

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 36 A Wise Dispensation of the Fading and Unrighteous Mammon.

1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxxii. 366 A man..may forget or abuse his stewardship in the dispensation of one talent as effectually as in the dispensation of ten.

a. Ordering, management; esp. the divine administration or conduct of the world; the ordering or arrangement of events by divine providence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > divine providence > ordering of events by

dispensationc1374

c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iv. pr. vi. 108 Thanne the wyse dispensacioun of god sparith hym.

c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Coloss. i. 25 I Poul am maad mynistre, or seruaunt, vp the dispensacioun [a1425 L.V. bi the dispensacioun] of God.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xviii. 204 The dyspensacion of goddis word settyth some men to fore other.

a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxxii. sig. l.v^v Whiche danes by sufferaunce and dispensacion Of almyghty god, for synne and iniquite Punysshed vnpiteously all this region.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hvi Bothe body & soule with y^e hole dispensacion and ordryng of our lyfe & wyll.

1643–7 Westm. Confess. Faith (1877) viii. §8 Overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom, in such manner and ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 260 Albeit in his dispensation..his strokes are..with an equal hand afflicting the innocent with the nocent.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 61 I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation .

b. An arrangement or provision of Providence or of Nature.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > divine providence > act of

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1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 177 So infinitely wise and provident do we find all the Dispensations in Nature.

1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 39 The Gospel is a Dispensation of Providence in regard to Mankind.

1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 18 With the immutable decree that man should labour, comes the benevolent dispensation that he need not want.

1861 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism v. 76 Attached to it by a special dispensation of nature.

c. A special dealing of Providence with a community, family, or person, dispensing blessing, affliction, or other event; the event or lot thus dealt out; as a mysterious dispensation or merciful dispensation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > personal destiny or one's lot

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1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. xxiv. 255 The Dispensations of God's Providence towards Men..are very promiscuous.

a1729 J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) xvi. 340 Neither are his [sc. God's] Methods or Intentions different in his Dispensations to each private Man.

1823 W. Scott Peveril III. vi. 150 A humbling dispensation on the House of Peveril.

1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 14 Mysterious dispensations of Providence.

1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 112 Different dispensations of trial and of trust, of sorrow and support.

1895 S. R. Crockett Bog-myrtle & Peat 154 In the north..everything is either a judgement or a dispensation, according to whether it happens to your neighbour or yourself.

6. Theology. A religious order or system, conceived as divinely instituted, or as a stage in a progressive revelation, expressly adapted to the needs of a particular nation or period of time, as the patriarchal dispensation, Mosaic (or Jewish) dispensation, the Christian dispensation; also, the age or period during which such system has prevailed; = economy n. 5b.An extension of the patristic use of the word as applied to the evangelical system based on the Incarnation (see note under II. above); the patriarchal and Mosaic ‘dispensations’ being conceived as prophetic of the Christian, all being one in substance though differing in form. This use became common in the theology of the 17th cent.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun]

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persuasion1732

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covenant1818

sectarism1821

organized religion1843

society > faith > sect > Christianity > [noun] > dispensation

Christendoma1400

Christian dispensation1732

1643–7 Westm. Confess. Faith (1877) vii. §6 There are not therefore two covenants of grace, differing in substance, but one and the same under various dispensations.

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) viii. iii. 297 The..Jewish Notion..is this, That the Law delivered to them upon Mount Sinai was a sufficient Dispensation from God.

1675 W. Cave (title) Antiquitates Apostolicæ..to which is added An Introductory Discourse concerning the three Great Dispensations of the Church, Patriarchal, Mosaical, and Evangelical.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) In Divinity, God's high Dispensation, is the giving of the Levitical Law to the Jews, the Gospel to the Gentiles, the Sending his Son for the Redemption of Mankind.

1732 G. Berkeley Serm. to Soc. Propagation Gospel in Wks. (1871) III. 246 The Christian dispensation is a dispensation of grace and favour.

1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) II. 124 Christianity is the last dispensation.

1838 W. E. Gladstone State Relations with Church vii [They] declared..that the preaching of the Reformers was a kind of renewed commencement of the gospel dispensation.

1877 W. Bruce Comm. Revel. v As the Israelitish dispensation was abolished by the First Coming of Christ, the Christian dispensation is abolished by His Second Coming.

†7. The ordering or arrangement of anything in a particular way; concrete. An arrangement, a system. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > established order or system > way in which anything is organized

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the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > quality of being systematic > systematic arrangement > a system or scheme > formal or established

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1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 135 By my owne voluntary dispensation.

1662 H. More Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Pref. Gen. 10 I never found my mind low or abject enough to sink into sense or conceit of that Dispensation [superstition], experimentally to find what is at the bottom thereof.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iv. iv. 295 He that lives in this dispensation of life.

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 191 The great uses and advantages of such a Heavenly dispensation of Life.

III. The action of dispensing with some requirement; medieval Latin dispensātio. (See dispense v. II.)

a. Ecclesiastical. An arrangement made by the administrator of the laws or canons of the church, granting, in special circumstances or in a particular case, a relaxation of the penalty incurred by a breach of the law, or exempting from the obligation to comply with its requirements, or from some sacred obligation, as an oath, etc.; the granting of licence by a pope, archbishop, or bishop, to a person, to do what is forbidden, or omit what is enjoined, by ecclesiastical law or by any solemn obligation; the licence so given.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical authority > [noun] > ordinance of > dispensation

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c1380 Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 139 Þei sellen it for mony, al þat þei maye; as pardons, indulgencis, & oþre dispensaciouns.

1382 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 162 Dispensacioun wiþ þis lawe winnes miche money.

1382 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 511 Monks and chanouns forsaken þe reules of Benet and Austyn, and taken wiþouten eny dispensacioun þe reule of freres.

c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 690 That he hath leue his firste wyf to lete As by the popes dispensacion.

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxx. 243 Sir Iohan..wedded dame blaunche duk henryes doughter of lancastre cosyn to the same Iohan by dispensacion of the pope.

a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 129 A dispensation is but a gracious releasing to some certain person or persons of the common written law.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 87 Then seeke a dispensation for his oth.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 111 Richard Cheyney, Bishop of Bristol, holding Glocester therewith in dispensation.

1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 37 The Profits accruing from the Dispensation of eating Eggs, Milk, Flesh, etc.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 114 To sue to Rome for any licence or dispensation, or to obey any process from thence, are made liable to the pains of praemunire.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 143 The original bull of dispensation which had been granted by Julius II for the marriage of Henry and Catherine.

1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. i. viii. 56 A dispensation would be needed; but a dispensation could be got from Rome.

b. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 75 That Saints may claim a Dispensation To swear and forswear, on occasion.

1673 J. Dryden Assignation v. iv. 74 'Tis a crime past dispensation.

1682 Modest Enq. Election Sheriffs London 11 As if they had a dispensation to speak what they please.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 44 He had a Dispensation from the Mufty to drink Wine.

a. Law. The relaxation or suspension of a law of the realm in a particular case; the exercise of the dispensatory power claimed by Charles II and James II.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > legislation > [noun] > cessation or suspension > in a particular case

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1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 583 The first that gaue dispensation against those lawes was Cneius Aufidius.

1667 S. Pepys Diary 9 Jan. (1974) VIII. 9 A way of preventing the King's dispensation with acts.

1686 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 382 Ten [judges] were clear of opinion that the dispensation in the case in question was good.

1689 W. Popple tr. J. Locke Let. conc. Toleration 43 The private Judgment of any Person concerning a Law enacted..for the publick Good, does not take away the Obligation of that Law, nor deserve a Dispensation.

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Dispensation by non obstante, If any statute tends to restrain some Prerogative incident to the person of the king, as to the right of pardoning, &c., which are inseparable from the king; by a clause of non obstante, he may dispense with it; [this] was disannulled by Stat. 1. W. & M.

a1832 J. Mackintosh Hist. Revol. Eng. (1834) vii. 179 The King answered..that the royal power of dispensation had been solemnly determined to be a sufficient warrant for such acts.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. v. 24 It was declared that..no dispensation with any statute should be valid unless such statute allows it.

b. clause of dispensation n. Scots Law see quot. 1861.

ΚΠ

1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) Where heritable subjects lay locally discontiguous..a clause of dispensation was sometimes inserted, specifying a particular place at which it should be sufficient to take infeftment for the whole lands, and other subjects, however discontiguous or dissimilar, and dispensing with any other subjects than earth and stone. The Crown alone could competently grant such a dispensation.

10. transferred. Exemption, release from any obligation, fate, etc.; remission. archaic or Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [noun] > release from duty or obligation

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1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxviii. 275 The richest..resolved to get a dispensation from this voyage by the means of a great sum of money.

1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 96 After this third application for a deliverance from this terrible Cup of the wrath of God, and yet no dispensation obtained, he returns to..the three Disciples.

a1711 T. Ken Serm. preached at Whitehall in Prose Wks. (1838) 161 He [sc. Daniel] never made business a dispensation from God's service.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 200. ⁋5 Our intimacy was regarded by me as a dispensation from ceremonial visits.

1771 E. Griffith tr. ‘P. Viaud’ Shipwreck 132 The present circumstances..appeared to be a sufficient dispensation from attending..to any other consideration.

11. The action of dispensing with anything; a setting aside, disregarding; a doing away with, doing without. [Compare sense 8.]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun] > dispensing with

dispensation1594

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C3 And [he] with good thoughts makes dispensation, Vrging the worser sence for vantage still.

1620 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. V. O.T. xiv. 7 Those temptations..which are raysed from arbitrary and priuate respects, admit of an easie dispensation.

1848 Sir J. Parke in Exchequer Rep. II. 723 Going to the counting-house during business hours, and finding no one there to receive the notice was equivalent to dispensation of notice.

1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. vii. 155 The dispensation with appeal in certain cases, only confirmed [it]..in all others.

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单词	dispensation
释义	dispensationn. /dɪspɛnˈseɪʃən/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s dys-; -acioun. Etymology: < French dispensation (12th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), or < Latin dispensātiōn-em distribution of money or property, management, stewardship, regulation, economy, < dispensāre to dispense v. I. The action of dealing out or distributing. 1. The action of dispensing or dealing out; distribution or administration to others; expenditure, spending, or disbursement (of money); economical use or disposal (of anything). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > [noun] dolec1275 dealing1377 distribution1382 dispensationa1387 spreading1601 dispensing1608 distributing1663 participation1755 doling1876 handout1913 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] spendingc1000 spening1297 dispensec1320 costc1325 dispendingc1340 dispensationa1387 expense1393 depance1450 waringc1480 spensea1538 bestowing?1542 expending1545 defrayment1547 dispensing1548 disbursing1564 disbursal1589 debursing1598 disbursementa1599 disburse1608 depursement1636 debursement1650 dispension1658 spenda1688 disbursage1721 finances1730 expenditure1769 outlay1798 dispenditure1857 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 469 Everych schulde make good for his owne partie, and ȝeve us special helpe and subsidie by his owne dispensacioun. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. ii. 3 The dispensation of this grace unto all men. 1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 49 A Dispensation of Water promiscuously and indifferently to all parts of the Earth. a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Wealth in Wks. (1707) I. i. 125 Blind in the Dispensation of all our Favours. 1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. III. 191 Elizabeth, a queen well known for her penurious dispensations. 1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism i. 26 Changes in the dispensation of the Lord's Supper. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. viii. 439 The dispensation of bribes, places, and pensions. †2. Anatomy. The distribution of blood, the nerves, etc., from some centre. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > circulation > [noun] > distribution of blood dispensation1668 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. i. 301 But the Principle of Dispensation from whence the Veins arise, is the Liver, and not the Heart. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) iii. i. 322 The Beginning of the dispensation of Nerves, or the part whence the Nerves immediately arise, is the Medulla oblongata. 1759 J. Mills tr. H. L. Duhamel du Monceau Pract. Treat. Husbandry ii. ii. 186 This dispensation of the nutritive juices. 3. The process of dispensing medicines or medical prescriptions; ‘the making up of medicines in accordance with prescription, and the delivery of them to the patient’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1883). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > dispensing dispensation1646 dispensing1724 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. iii. 237 In the due dispensation of medicines desumed from this animall. View more context for this quotation 1779 S. Johnson Garth in Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets IV. 6 The physicians procured some apothecaries to undertake the dispensation. II. The action of administering, ordering, or managing; the system by which things are administered. [This group of senses originates in the Latin use of dispensātio to render Greek οἰκονομία in the New Testament and patristic writers. The latter is used in 1 Corinthians ix. 17, Ephesians iii. 2, Colossians i. 25 for the ‘office of an administrator’ (see sense 4 below); but in Ephesians i. 10, iii. 9, for ‘a method or system of administration’ (specifically that which involved the Incarnation). From this latter arose various theological uses: (1) Tertullian ( Adv. Praxean ii, iii, iv.) uses dispensatio = οἰκονομία to denote the Trinity as an administrative arrangement, i.e. a system of distribution and apportionment of functions designed by the Father for administrative purposes. This is known as an œconomical as distinguished from an essential Trinity: in the latter the personal distinctions are regarded as matters of nature and necessity, in the former of will. (See the distinction between dispensative adj., dispensatory adj., and essential adj.) (2) It was applied to the Incarnation (dispensatio assumpti corporis, d. susceptæ carnis, or simply dispensatio) as the basis or organ of the redemptive system under which humankind now live (Augustine Serm. 264 §5). (3) The evangelical system is termed dispensatio gratiæ in opposition to the Law or system of works (Augustine Ep. 82 §20), while the method of salvation by means of the Incarnation is dispensatio salutis nostrae (Augustine Serm. 237 §1). Hence, in the Latin version of Irenæus, Christ is called dispensator paternae gratiae (iv. 20. 7). (4) Dispensatio was applied to the divine purpose or decree which established the system, and determined its mode of action (Tertullian Adv. Marc. vi. 18, Hilar. Pict. De Trin. ix. 66, xi. 13); also, by Hilary, to the Passion, as the supreme mystery of Redemption.] 4. The orderly administration of things committed to one's charge; the function or office of administrator or steward; stewardship. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > authority > delegated authority > action or function of a delegate or deputy > [noun] > management on behalf of another or stewardship bailliec1305 bailieshipc1375 dispensingc1380 dispensationc1384 dispending1388 procuracya1425 procuration1484 umboth1509 stewardship1526 proctorship1535 stewarding1548 bailiwick1550 farmership1551 factory1560 agency1600 bailiffwick1605 agentship1608 factorage1639 proctorage1641 oeconomacy1651 soliciting1663 stewartrya1763 factordom1888 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. ix. 17 Forsoth if I willinge do this thing, I haue mede; sothly if aȝens my wil, dispensacioun is bitake to me. 1482 Monk of Evesham 98 They shulde geue acomtys of her dispensacyon that haue resceyued benefytys and ryches of the chyrche. 1548 H. Latimer Notable Serm. sig. C.viii^v I haue taken at my fathers hande the dispensacion of redemyng mankynd. 1647 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 197 According to the will of him whose steward I am, and to whom I must give an accompt of the dispensacion of that which he hath committed vnto me. 1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 36 A Wise Dispensation of the Fading and Unrighteous Mammon. 1860 R. C. Trench Serm. in Westm. Abbey xxxii. 366 A man..may forget or abuse his stewardship in the dispensation of one talent as effectually as in the dispensation of ten. 5. a. Ordering, management; esp. the divine administration or conduct of the world; the ordering or arrangement of events by divine providence. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > divine providence > ordering of events by dispensationc1374 c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Cambr.) iv. pr. vi. 108 Thanne the wyse dispensacioun of god sparith hym. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Coloss. i. 25 I Poul am maad mynistre, or seruaunt, vp the dispensacioun [a1425 L.V. bi the dispensacioun] of God. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vi. xviii. 204 The dyspensacion of goddis word settyth some men to fore other. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xxxii. sig. l.v^v Whiche danes by sufferaunce and dispensacion Of almyghty god, for synne and iniquite Punysshed vnpiteously all this region. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Hvi Bothe body & soule with y^e hole dispensacion and ordryng of our lyfe & wyll. 1643–7 Westm. Confess. Faith (1877) viii. §8 Overcoming all their enemies by his almighty power and wisdom, in such manner and ways as are most consonant to his wonderful and unsearchable dispensation. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 260 Albeit in his dispensation..his strokes are..with an equal hand afflicting the innocent with the nocent. 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 61 I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation . View more context for this quotation b. An arrangement or provision of Providence or of Nature. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > activities of God > [noun] > divine providence > act of providencec1540 providential1659 dispensation1665 1665 R. Hooke Micrographia 177 So infinitely wise and provident do we find all the Dispensations in Nature. 1754 Bp. T. Sherlock Disc. (1759) I. i. 39 The Gospel is a Dispensation of Providence in regard to Mankind. 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 18 With the immutable decree that man should labour, comes the benevolent dispensation that he need not want. 1861 J. S. Mill Utilitarianism v. 76 Attached to it by a special dispensation of nature. c. A special dealing of Providence with a community, family, or person, dispensing blessing, affliction, or other event; the event or lot thus dealt out; as a mysterious dispensation or merciful dispensation. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > personal destiny or one's lot lotOE chance1297 fallc1300 weirds1320 cuta1340 fatec1374 vie1377 parta1382 foredoom1563 event1577 allotment1586 fatality1589 kincha1600 lines1611 fortunea1616 dispensation1704 1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. xxiv. 255 The Dispensations of God's Providence towards Men..are very promiscuous. a1729 J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) xvi. 340 Neither are his [sc. God's] Methods or Intentions different in his Dispensations to each private Man. 1823 W. Scott Peveril III. vi. 150 A humbling dispensation on the House of Peveril. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 14 Mysterious dispensations of Providence. 1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 112 Different dispensations of trial and of trust, of sorrow and support. 1895 S. R. Crockett Bog-myrtle & Peat 154 In the north..everything is either a judgement or a dispensation, according to whether it happens to your neighbour or yourself. 6. Theology. A religious order or system, conceived as divinely instituted, or as a stage in a progressive revelation, expressly adapted to the needs of a particular nation or period of time, as the patriarchal dispensation, Mosaic (or Jewish) dispensation, the Christian dispensation; also, the age or period during which such system has prevailed; = economy n. 5b.An extension of the patristic use of the word as applied to the evangelical system based on the Incarnation (see note under II. above); the patriarchal and Mosaic ‘dispensations’ being conceived as prophetic of the Christian, all being one in substance though differing in form. This use became common in the theology of the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] churcheOE kirkc1175 spousea1200 lawa1225 lorea1225 religionc1325 faithc1384 sectc1386 seta1387 leara1400 hirselc1480 professiona1513 congregation1526 communion1553 schism1555 segregation1563 sex1583 hortus conclususa1631 confessiona1641 dispensation1643 sectary1651 churchship1675 cult1679 persuasion1732 denomination1746–7 connection1753 covenant1818 sectarism1821 organized religion1843 society > faith > sect > Christianity > [noun] > dispensation Christendoma1400 Christian dispensation1732 1643–7 Westm. Confess. Faith (1877) vii. §6 There are not therefore two covenants of grace, differing in substance, but one and the same under various dispensations. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) viii. iii. 297 The..Jewish Notion..is this, That the Law delivered to them upon Mount Sinai was a sufficient Dispensation from God. 1675 W. Cave (title) Antiquitates Apostolicæ..to which is added An Introductory Discourse concerning the three Great Dispensations of the Church, Patriarchal, Mosaical, and Evangelical. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) (at cited word) In Divinity, God's high Dispensation, is the giving of the Levitical Law to the Jews, the Gospel to the Gentiles, the Sending his Son for the Redemption of Mankind. 1732 G. Berkeley Serm. to Soc. Propagation Gospel in Wks. (1871) III. 246 The Christian dispensation is a dispensation of grace and favour. 1772 J. Priestley Inst. Relig. (1782) II. 124 Christianity is the last dispensation. 1838 W. E. Gladstone State Relations with Church vii [They] declared..that the preaching of the Reformers was a kind of renewed commencement of the gospel dispensation. 1877 W. Bruce Comm. Revel. v As the Israelitish dispensation was abolished by the First Coming of Christ, the Christian dispensation is abolished by His Second Coming. †7. The ordering or arrangement of anything in a particular way; concrete. An arrangement, a system. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > established order or system > way in which anything is organized dispensation1633 establishment1799 set-up1889 rig-up1893 the world > relative properties > order > [noun] > quality of being systematic > systematic arrangement > a system or scheme > formal or established dispensation1633 system1747 format1955 1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts ii. 135 By my owne voluntary dispensation. 1662 H. More Coll. Several Philos. Writings (ed. 2) Pref. Gen. 10 I never found my mind low or abject enough to sink into sense or conceit of that Dispensation [superstition], experimentally to find what is at the bottom thereof. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iv. iv. 295 He that lives in this dispensation of life. 1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 191 The great uses and advantages of such a Heavenly dispensation of Life. III. The action of dispensing with some requirement; medieval Latin dispensātio. (See dispense v. II.) 8. a. Ecclesiastical. An arrangement made by the administrator of the laws or canons of the church, granting, in special circumstances or in a particular case, a relaxation of the penalty incurred by a breach of the law, or exempting from the obligation to comply with its requirements, or from some sacred obligation, as an oath, etc.; the granting of licence by a pope, archbishop, or bishop, to a person, to do what is forbidden, or omit what is enjoined, by ecclesiastical law or by any solemn obligation; the licence so given. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical authority > [noun] > ordinance of > dispensation dispensationc1380 dispension1483 dispense1490 spensation1618 indulgencea1680 c1380 Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 139 Þei sellen it for mony, al þat þei maye; as pardons, indulgencis, & oþre dispensaciouns. 1382 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 162 Dispensacioun wiþ þis lawe winnes miche money. 1382 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 511 Monks and chanouns forsaken þe reules of Benet and Austyn, and taken wiþouten eny dispensacioun þe reule of freres. c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 690 That he hath leue his firste wyf to lete As by the popes dispensacion. 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxxx. 243 Sir Iohan..wedded dame blaunche duk henryes doughter of lancastre cosyn to the same Iohan by dispensacion of the pope. a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 129 A dispensation is but a gracious releasing to some certain person or persons of the common written law. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost ii. i. 87 Then seeke a dispensation for his oth. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 111 Richard Cheyney, Bishop of Bristol, holding Glocester therewith in dispensation. 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 37 The Profits accruing from the Dispensation of eating Eggs, Milk, Flesh, etc. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 114 To sue to Rome for any licence or dispensation, or to obey any process from thence, are made liable to the pains of praemunire. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. 143 The original bull of dispensation which had been granted by Julius II for the marriage of Henry and Catherine. 1873 W. H. Dixon Hist. Two Queens I. i. viii. 56 A dispensation would be needed; but a dispensation could be got from Rome. b. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 75 That Saints may claim a Dispensation To swear and forswear, on occasion. 1673 J. Dryden Assignation v. iv. 74 'Tis a crime past dispensation. 1682 Modest Enq. Election Sheriffs London 11 As if they had a dispensation to speak what they please. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 44 He had a Dispensation from the Mufty to drink Wine. 9. a. Law. The relaxation or suspension of a law of the realm in a particular case; the exercise of the dispensatory power claimed by Charles II and James II. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [noun] > cessation or suspension > in a particular case legitimationc1540 non obstante1604 dispensation1607 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 583 The first that gaue dispensation against those lawes was Cneius Aufidius. 1667 S. Pepys Diary 9 Jan. (1974) VIII. 9 A way of preventing the King's dispensation with acts. 1686 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 382 Ten [judges] were clear of opinion that the dispensation in the case in question was good. 1689 W. Popple tr. J. Locke Let. conc. Toleration 43 The private Judgment of any Person concerning a Law enacted..for the publick Good, does not take away the Obligation of that Law, nor deserve a Dispensation. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Dispensation by non obstante, If any statute tends to restrain some Prerogative incident to the person of the king, as to the right of pardoning, &c., which are inseparable from the king; by a clause of non obstante, he may dispense with it; [this] was disannulled by Stat. 1. W. & M. a1832 J. Mackintosh Hist. Revol. Eng. (1834) vii. 179 The King answered..that the royal power of dispensation had been solemnly determined to be a sufficient warrant for such acts. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. v. 24 It was declared that..no dispensation with any statute should be valid unless such statute allows it. b. clause of dispensation n. Scots Law see quot. 1861. ΚΠ 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) Where heritable subjects lay locally discontiguous..a clause of dispensation was sometimes inserted, specifying a particular place at which it should be sufficient to take infeftment for the whole lands, and other subjects, however discontiguous or dissimilar, and dispensing with any other subjects than earth and stone. The Crown alone could competently grant such a dispensation. 10. transferred. Exemption, release from any obligation, fate, etc.; remission. archaic or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > [noun] > release from duty or obligation remission?1316 loosingc1357 releasec1390 releasing1395 discharginga1398 defeasance1399 quittancea1400 acquittancec1405 discharge1423 absolution1447 acquittinga1450 quietance1451 excusationc1475 relief1496 acquittal?1538 releasement1548 ease1576 excuse1577 relievement1583 excusal1584 exoneration1640 dispensation1653 absolvement1689 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxviii. 275 The richest..resolved to get a dispensation from this voyage by the means of a great sum of money. 1676 M. Hale Contempl. Moral & Divine i. 96 After this third application for a deliverance from this terrible Cup of the wrath of God, and yet no dispensation obtained, he returns to..the three Disciples. a1711 T. Ken Serm. preached at Whitehall in Prose Wks. (1838) 161 He [sc. Daniel] never made business a dispensation from God's service. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 200. ⁋5 Our intimacy was regarded by me as a dispensation from ceremonial visits. 1771 E. Griffith tr. ‘P. Viaud’ Shipwreck 132 The present circumstances..appeared to be a sufficient dispensation from attending..to any other consideration. 11. The action of dispensing with anything; a setting aside, disregarding; a doing away with, doing without. [Compare sense 8.] ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [noun] > dispensing with dispensation1594 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C3 And [he] with good thoughts makes dispensation, Vrging the worser sence for vantage still. View more context for this quotation 1620 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. V. O.T. xiv. 7 Those temptations..which are raysed from arbitrary and priuate respects, admit of an easie dispensation. 1848 Sir J. Parke in Exchequer Rep. II. 723 Going to the counting-house during business hours, and finding no one there to receive the notice was equivalent to dispensation of notice. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. vii. 155 The dispensation with appeal in certain cases, only confirmed [it]..in all others. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1374
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