dispositively

English

Etymology

From dispositive +‎ -ly.

Adverb

dispositively (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) In a dispositive manner, i.e. by natural or moral disposition.
    • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
      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 producer
    • 1695, Robert Boyle, A Free Discourse against Customary Swearing:
      Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, […] break all the ten commandments at once.

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