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Meaning Of Dispensation
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.
n.
That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed;
that which is enjoined or bestowed
n.
A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained
and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and
Christian dispensations.
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.).