dispensation

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Dispensation of birth control pills or skin patches require a state pharmacy license.

From Reuters • Jul. 13, 2011

Dispensation from public marriage impediments must be sent through the Ordinary.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

Pious Parents, under such a Dispensation, may conclude it is well for them in particular,—because he, who hath done it, is their Covenant God.

From Submission to Divine Providence in the Death of Children Recommended and inforced, in a sermon preached at Northampton, on the death of a very amiable and hopeful child, about five years old by Doddridge, Philip

I have a Dispensation from St. Peter To quench the Fire of Love when it grows painful.

From Ponteach The Savages of America by Moses, Montrose Jonas

Then he added, his hands raised aloft and his eyes turned toward the ceiling: 'We're already in it, the new Dispensation, the New Age—air.'

From The Promise of Air by Blackwood, Algernon