- dispensation (n.)
- late 14c., from Old French despensacion (12c., Modern French dispensation), or directly from Latin dispensationem (nominative dispensatio) "management, charge," noun of action from past participle stem of dispensare "disburse, administer, distribute (by weight)" (see dispense). Theological sense is from the use of the word to translate Greek oikonomoia "office, method of administration."
