dispensation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /dɪsˌpɛnˈseɪʃən/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution countable,uncountable
    — a fair dispensation of money
  2. The distribution of good and evil by God to man. countable,uncountable
    — Shall we not accompt theſe a part of Gods dispenſation, and therefore good in the Fountaine, from whence they flowed
  3. That which is dispensed, dealt out, or given; that which is bestowed on someone countable,uncountable
    — Bowman certainly lost no time in travelling south to obtain his dispensation once he had published the sermon
  4. A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy countable,uncountable
    — the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations
  5. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption. countable,uncountable
    — Special grounds for giving dispensation to see classified documents include research purposes.
  6. The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; exemption.; In the Roman Catholic Church, an exemption from some ecclesiastical law, or from an obligation to God which a person has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.). countable,uncountable
    — [H]e had a dispensation for conforming in outward observances to the Protestant faith.

词形变化

dispensations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
dispensational dispensation of the fulness of times
相关词
dispensationalism dispensationalist

词源

From Old French despensacion, from Latin dispensātiō. By surface analysis, dispens(e) + -ation.
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