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disponing

disponing is the present participle and gerund of dispone.

Meaning of dispone

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.

Questions about disponing

What is disponing the present participle and gerund of?
Disponing is the present participle and gerund of dispone.

Words near disponing in the dictionary

  1. disponges
  2. disponging
  3. disponibilities
  4. disponibility
  5. disponible
  6. disponing
  7. dispope
  8. dispoped
  9. dispopes
  10. dispoping
  11. disporic

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