DISPENSATION Copy link • DISPENSATIONDistribution; vid, Exemption from some law, immunitas (from anything, alicujus rei [e.g., omnium rerum, Caes.; magni muneris, Cic.] or a re [e.g., a tributis, Suet.]): vacatio (from military service, militiae): To grant a dispention from anything, immunitatem alicujus rei dare, or a re offerre (Suet.): to grant anybody a dispention to do anything, dare alicui hanc veniam, ut, etc.; alicujus rei veniam dare, permittere licentiam, ut, etc. [Vid: PERMISSION]. Divine institution, leges et instituta; praecepta institutaque (with genitive of person, Mosis or Moysis, etc.). The Mosaic dispention, Mosaica religio (Lactant). Distribution of good and evil with regard to providence, numen divinum (the will of God); also consilium divinum. Dei jussus (only in ablative) or jussum (the command): by a divine dispention, consilio divino; *jussu divino; divinitus (generally; ofwhat is sent from above): I consider anything a dispention of Providence, aliquid divinitus accidisse mihi videtur (Vid: Cic., Partit., 23, 82).