Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A book in which the contents, preparation, and uses of medicines are described; a pharmacopoeia.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to dispensing; having the power to dispense, or grant dispensations.
- noun A book containing an account of the substances used as medicines, and of their composition, uses, and action; properly, a commentary upon the pharmacopœia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations.
- noun A book or medicinal formulary containing a systematic description of drugs, and of preparations made from them. It is usually, but not always, distinguished from a pharmacopœia in that it issued by private parties, and not by an official body or by government.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
book containing asystematic description ofdrugs and ofpreparations made from them.
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Examples
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Lucia's many, marvelously concise reflections on objective redemption and coredemption (or redemption and coredemption in first act), in which these are presented as, shall we say, the "genetic matrices" of subjective redemption and coredemption (that in second act), also known as the dispensatory mediation of grace.
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"dispensatory" phase, in which the grace of the redemption reaches individual souls in need of regeneration, to lead them to salvation, according to the plan of God, who wills "all men to be saved" (1 Tim 2: 4).
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I bullied and bounced, it sticks to our last sand, and compelled the apothecary to make his salve according to the Edinburgh dispensatory, that it might adhere better.
How it feels to have a stroke: "my consciousness soared into an all-knowingness, a 'being at one' with the universe..." Ann Althouse 2008
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There is an ekporeusis or "procession" of the Spirit, which is oikonomike or "dispensatory."
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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Oikonomikē or dispensatory, in respect of the work of grace.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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His ekporeusis or proceeding, mentioned in the place insisted on, is his economical or dispensatory proceeding, for the carrying on of the work of grace.
Of Communion with God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost 1616-1683 1965
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Attached to the office was the duty of collecting the assessments on the capital stock, adjuster in chief, the underwriting, a court of appeal on technical points in disputed settlements, a diplomatic agency and encouragement dispensatory with and for the stockholders.
The Spirit of 1906 George Washington Brooks
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I bullied and bounced (it sticks to our last sand), and compelled the apothecary to make his salve according to the Edinburgh dispensatory, that it might adhere better.
Obiter Dicta Second Series Augustine Birrell 1891
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She tinctured all his thoughts; she was the compound extract of all that was chemically pure and officinal -- the dispensatory contained nothing equal to her.
The Four Million O. Henry 1886
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In a medical dispensatory of the times the different varieties of medicines used in New England are enumerated.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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