Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to dispensation or the granting of dispensations: as, dispensative power.
- Dispensable; capable of being dispensed with.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Granting dispensation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Granting
dispensation .
Etymologies
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Latin dispensativus, dispensatorius.
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Examples
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The teaching authority of the bishop and his governing authority (potestas regiminis) will now be successively considered, the latter comprising the legislative, dispensative, judicial, coercive, and administrative powers.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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