Relating to or having the power to dispense or distribute; serving a dispensing function.
From 'dispensate' or 'dispense' plus '-ive' suffix meaning tending toward or relating to.
This adjective is almost never used in modern English, but it appears in medieval texts describing God's 'dispensative power'—the divine ability to distribute grace and manage creation.
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