Dispensation
[dɪspen'seɪʃ(ə)n]
解释:
(noun.) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions).
(noun.) an exemption from some rule or obligation.
(noun.) a share that has been dispensed or distributed.
布兰奇手打--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The act of dispensing or dealing out; distribution; often used of the distribution of good and evil by God to man, or more generically, of the acts and modes of his administration.
(n.) That which is dispensed, dealt out, or appointed; that which is enjoined or bestowed
(n.) A system of principles, promises, and rules ordained and administered; scheme; economy; as, the Patriarchal, Mosaic, and Christian dispensations.
(n.) The relaxation of a law in a particular case; permission to do something forbidden, or to omit doing something enjoined; specifically, in the Roman Catholic Church, exemption from some ecclesiastical law or obligation to God which a man has incurred of his own free will (oaths, vows, etc.).
巴雷特校对
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Distribution, apportionment, allotment.[2]. Administration, stewardship.[3]. Scheme, plan, system, economy.[4]. Exemption (from some law), license.
克雷格编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Economy, dealing, revelation, distribution, arrangement, visitation, exemption,immunity, privilege, abandonment, dismissal, disuse, indulgence
ANT:Reservation, injunction, prohibition, enforcement, retention, restriction
手打:柯尔斯顿
解释:
n. the act of dispensing or dealing out: various methods or stages of God's dealing with His creatures—Patriarchal Mosaic Christian: the distribution of good and evil in the divine government: license or permission to neglect a rule.—adjs. Dispens′ative Dispens′atory granting dispensation.—advs. Dispens′atively Dispens′atorily.—n. Dispens′atory a book containing medical prescriptions.—adj. Dispens′ing.
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例句:
- And a still more extravagant and unwise claim made by the church was the claim to the power of _dispensation_. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- I, in my stiff- necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation: instead of bending to the decree, I defied it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- For my vow, said the Templar, our Grand Master hath granted me a dispensation. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- All sacrifice was barred to the faithful; no loophole was left for the sacrificial priest of the old dispensation to come back into the new faith. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- What was happening to the dukes, princes, and kings of the old dispensation during this age of change? 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Twere unjust to visit upon Mr and Mrs Boffin, a calamity which was doubtless a dispensation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- I thought perhaps you were all his, which would have been a cruel dispensation for me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- A dispensation,' said Sam, correcting the old gentleman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Come, then; by special dispensation we will allow him a few cracknels, but nothing less homely. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Of dispensations we have already spoken (§ 11). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
手打:雷克斯