dispensation
- IPA[ˌdispənˈsāSH(ə)n]
美式
- exemption from a rule or usual requirement；permission to be exempted from the laws or observances of the Church
noun: dispensation, plural noun: dispensations
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. exemption from a rule or usual requirement although she was too young, she was given special dispensation to play two matches they were given a dispensation to take most of the first week off 同義詞
- ▪ permission to be exempted from the laws or observances of the Church he received papal dispensation to hold a number of benefices
- 2. a system of order, government, or organization of a nation, community, etc., especially as existing at a particular time scholarship is conveyed to a wider audience than under the old dispensation 同義詞
- ▪ (in Christian theology) a divinely ordained order prevailing at a particular period of history the Mosaic dispensation
- ▪ archaic an act of divine providence the laws to which the creator in all his dispensations conforms
- 3. the action of distributing or supplying something regulations controlling dispensation of medications 同義詞