Picture someone standing above a crowd with a full basket, handing things down one portion at a time. What comes down can be justice, food, money or medicine. It can also be a single slip of paper saying that one person does not have to follow a rule everyone else follows. And the whole arrangement — who hands out what, to whom, and by what rules in this period of history — can itself be called the dispensation. The act, the thing handed down, and the system behind it all share one word.
From the word’s history
The packet's Wiktionary entry gives Old French despensacion and Latin dispensātiō, and analyses the modern word as dispense + -ation — the act, or the result, of dispensing.
packet 裡的 Wiktionary 資料記載它來自古法文 despensacion、拉丁文 dispensātiō，並把現代字形拆成 dispense（發放）＋ -ation（動作或動作的結果）。「發放這個動作」與「發放出來的那樣東西」因此本來就共用一個字。
Wiktionary entry supplied in this packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:637473619:20279)
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