Dispensation
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- Dispensation is the act of an authority making an exception to laws, standards, or customs. For an account of the power of bishops to dispense with standards in the Eastern Orthodox Church, see economy (Eastern Orthodoxy). For dispensation in western Christendom, see dispensation (Catholic Church).
- In Buddhism, the Buddha's Dispensation is his teaching (see Dharma (Buddhism)).
- A dispensation is a government or a system of rules. According to Christian Dispensationalism, on several occasions God has changed the rules by which humans must live, establishing different "dispensations". See also Dispensation of the fulness of times.
- Dispensation is the act of distributing goods or services, especially those that are regulated, as in the practice of pharmacists.