indult

noun

An authorization granted by the pope, allowing a bishop or diocese to deviate from canon law in some particular.

To indulge; grant; permit; accord.

noun

An indulgence; license; permission; grant.

noun

In the Roman Catholic Church, a license or permission granted by the Pope for the performance of some act not sanctioned by the common law of the church; an exemption; a privilege.

noun

In Spain, an impost formerly paid to the king on everything brought in galleons from America.

noun

A privilege or exemption; an indulgence; a dispensation granted by the pope.

noun

A duty levied on all importations.

noun

A permission or privilege granted by the church authority that excepts an individual from what is otherwise a norm of church law, such as a release from monastic vows.