the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Granting dispensation.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Pertaining to dispensation or the granting of dispensations: as, dispensative power.
Dispensable; capable of being dispensed with.
Word Usage
"The teaching authority of the bishop and his governing authority (potestas regiminis) will now be successively considered, the latter comprising the legislative, dispensative, judicial, coercive, and administrative powers."