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Concordances
Scofield Reference Index
• Dispensation
Thompson Chain Reference
• Superiority of the New Dispensation
• Dispensation, New
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Dispensation
American Tract Society
• Dispensation
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Mosiac Dispensation
• Legal or Mosaick Dispensation
• Dispensation
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Dispensation, Dispensationalism
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Dispensation
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Dispensations
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Dispensation
King James Dictionary
• Dispense
• Dispensation
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Dispensation
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Dispensation
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Dispensation
Webster Dictionary
• Dispensing
• Dispenser
• Dispensed
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Dispensations
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Dispensation
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Dispensation
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Dispensation
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Dispensation
Lexicons
• ܡܕ݂ܰܒ݁ܪܳܢܽܘܬ݂ܳܐ
• οἰκονομία
• שָׁפַט

A formal license, granted by ecclesiastical authority, to do something which is not ordinarily permitted by the canons, or to leave undone something that may be prescribed. In the American Canons, dispensation has special reference to an official act by the Bishop whereby he may excuse candidates for Holy Orders from pursuing certain studies required by canon.