| 单词 | a mysterious dispensation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasa mysterious dispensation c. A special dealing of Providence with a community, family, or person, dispensing blessing, affliction, or other event; the event or lot thus dealt out; as a mysterious dispensation or merciful dispensation. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > personal destiny or one's lot lotOE chance1297 fallc1300 weirds1320 cuta1340 fatec1374 vie1377 parta1382 foredoom1563 event1577 allotment1586 fatality1589 kincha1600 lines1611 fortunea1616 dispensation1704 1704 R. Nelson Compan. Festivals & Fasts i. xxiv. 255 The Dispensations of God's Providence towards Men..are very promiscuous. a1729 J. Rogers 19 Serm. (1735) xvi. 340 Neither are his [sc. God's] Methods or Intentions different in his Dispensations to each private Man. 1823 W. Scott Peveril III. vi. 150 A humbling dispensation on the House of Peveril. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) ii. 14 Mysterious dispensations of Providence. 1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 112 Different dispensations of trial and of trust, of sorrow and support. 1895 S. R. Crockett Bog-myrtle & Peat 154 In the north..everything is either a judgement or a dispensation, according to whether it happens to your neighbour or yourself. < as lemmas |
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