Meanings
adverbdispositively (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteIn a dispositive manner, i.e. by natural or moral disposition.
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 Swearing1 more example
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
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
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