dispensator
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of dispensator
1350–1400; Middle English dispensatour < Medieval Latin dispēnsātor, Latin: manager, steward, equivalent to dispēnsā ( re ) ( dispense ) + -tor -tor
Example Sentences
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The latest management shakeup was announced in a decree in Latin, entitled “Fidelis Dispensator et Prudens,” or “A Faithful and Wise Manager.”
From BusinessWeek
It is but little we can do for patients in this extreme condition; but the faith his wife reposed in professional powers that had already saved her, suggested supplications and entreaties which I told her she had better direct to a higher Dispensator of hope and relief.
From Project Gutenberg
Go to your Home Secretary, your Postmaster in General, and tell them that no Post Office or School shall be built on this spot, Because I, Walt, hailing hoarsely from Manhattan, have spotted it, And Punch, the lustrous camerado, the ineffable dispensator, will spot it too!
From Project Gutenberg
A slave called the dispensator was the manager of this business.
From Project Gutenberg
Not only would he be keeping his union fast with Christ, but he would also be eyeing Christ by faith, as his store-house, and general Lord dispensator of all the purchased blessings of the covenant, which he standeth in need of, and looking on Christ, as standing engaged by office to complete his work of salvation, and to present him with the rest to himself holy, without blemish, yea, and without spot and wrinkle, or any such thing, Eph. v.
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