Dispensatory

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A book in which the contents, preparation, and uses of medicines are described; a pharmacopoeia.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A book containing a systematic description of drugs and of preparations made from them.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Granting, or authorized to grant, dispensations.
  • n. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Relating to dispensing; having the power to dispense, or grant dispensations.
  • n. A book containing an account of the substances used as medicines, and of their composition, uses, and action; properly, a commentary upon the pharmacopœia.
  • Word Usage
    "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."