Word Meanings - DISPENSATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. "Dispensatory power." Bp. Rainbow.

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• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• GRANT
  yield, LL. creantare to promise, assure, for credentare to make believe, fr. L. credens, p. pr. of credere to believe. See 1. To give over; to make conveyance of; to give the possession or title of; to convey; -- usually in answer to petition.
• DISPENSATORY
  Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations. "Dispensatory power." Bp. Rainbow.
• POWERLESS
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
• AUTHORIZABLE
  Capable of being authorized. Hammond.
• AUTHORIZED
  1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. 2. Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be
• AUTHORIZE
  1. To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary. 2. To make legal; to give legal sanction to; to legalize; as, to authorize a marriage. 3. To establish
• GRANTEE
  The person to whom a grant or conveyance is made. His grace will not survive the poor grantee he despises. Burke.
• POWER
  See FISH
• GRANTABLE
  Capable of being granted.
• RAINBOWED
  Formed with or like a rainbow.
• AUTHORIZE ONE'S SELF
  , to rely for authority. Authorizing himself, for the most part, upon other histories. Sir P. Sidney.
• GRANTER
  One who grants.
• RAINBOW
  A bow or arch exhibiting, in concentric bands, the several colors of the spectrum, and formed in the part of the hemisphere opposite to the sun by the refraction and reflection of the sun's rays in drops of falling rain. Note: Besides the ordinary
• AUTHORIZER
  One who authorizes.
• AUTHORIZATION
  The act of giving authority or legal power; establishment by authority; sanction or warrant. The authorization of laws. Motley. A special authorization from the chief. Merivale.
• GRANTOR
  The person by whom a grant or conveyance is made.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• INTEGRANT
  Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;
• POLICE POWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
• DISEMPOWER
  To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
• DISAUTHORIZE
  To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. W. Wotton.
• MIGRANT
  Migratory. Sir T. Browne. -- n.
• EMPOWER
  1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize ; as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor. 2. To give
• UNPOWER
  Want of power; weakness. Piers Plowman.
• FLAGRANTLY
  In a flagrant manner.
• CONCERT OF THE POWERS
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.