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dispositively

dispositively adverb: in a dispositive manner, i.e. by natural or moral disposition.

Adverb

dispositively (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) In a dispositive manner, i.e. by natural or moral disposition.
    • the generation of one thing is the corruption of another , although it be substantially true concerning the form and matter , is also dispositively verified in the efficient or producer1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
    • Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, […] break all the ten commandments at once.1695, Robert Boyle, A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing

Origin of dispositively

From dispositive + -ly.

Questions about dispositively

What does dispositively mean?
Dispositively means in a dispositive manner, i.e. by natural or moral disposition.
What part of speech is dispositively?
Dispositively is an adverb.

Words near dispositively in the dictionary

  1. dispositioned
  2. dispositiones
  3. dispositioning
  4. dispositions
  5. dispositive
  6. dispositively
  7. dispositives
  8. dispositivity
  9. dispositor
  10. dispositors
  11. disposits

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