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dispone

dispone verb: to convey legal authority to another.

Verb

dispone (third-person singular simple present dispones, present participle disponing, simple past and past participle disponed)

  1. (transitive) To convey legal authority to another.
    • The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price...1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To set in order; to dispose.

Forms of dispone

third-person singular presentdispones
present participledisponing
past participledisponed
pastdisponed

Origin of dispone

From French, from Latin disponĕre (“to arrange”).

Words formed from dispone

Questions about dispone

What does dispone mean?
Dispone means to convey legal authority to another.
What part of speech is dispone?
Dispone is a verb.
What is the past tense of dispone?
The past tense of dispone is disponed.

Words near dispone in the dictionary

  1. dispoline
  2. dispond
  3. dispondaic
  4. dispondee
  5. dispondees
  6. dispone
  7. disponed
  8. disponee
  9. disponees
  10. disponent
  11. disponents

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