dispone

D2I1S1P3O1N1E1

verb

To convey legal authority to another.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person dispones · participle present disponing · participle past disponed · past disponed

  1. transitivelawTo convey legal authority to another.
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    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 of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this.

    1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo set in order; to dispose.

Origin

  1. Latindisponĕre“to arrange”
  2. Englishdispone

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

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