Dispensation

dis-pen-sa -shun, s. distribution, or the Displeasure, act of dispensing; administration; the dealing of God with His creatures, or the distribution of good and evil, natural or moral, in the divine government of the world; God's manner of dealing with man in grace at different stages in the work of re- Displenish, dempt i on [Theol.]; the granting of a licence by the Pope, or the licence itself, to free one from an ob- Displode, ligation, generally a prohibition, prescribed by the canons of the Church; the act by which the bishop Displosion, of a diocese licenses a clergyman to hold two or Displume, more benefices, or to reside out of the boundaries of his parish [Eccles.] (L. dis, and pen do, pensum, to Dispondee, weigh.)