dispensation

Definition

The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution

Etymology

From Old French despensacion, from Latin dispensātiō. By surface analysis, dispens(e) + -ation.

Example Sentences

• "a fair dispensation of money"
• "The public's health is hardly improved by compounding the existing problem with the dispensation of undocumented, partially true or totally false material."
• "Shall we not accompt theſe a part of Gods dispenſation, and therefore good in the Fountaine, from whence they flowed"