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▪ I. diˈsposing, vbl. n.
[f. dispose v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb dispose.
1. Arrangement, suitable or orderly placing; see dispose v. 1. (In quot. 1630, ‘get-up’, attire.)
c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxvii, After diuers disposynges of men and after sundry states..are dyuers exercises in worchyng. 1570Golding tr. Chytræus (title), Postill, or Orderly disposing of Certeyne Epistles usually read in the Church. 1630R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 91 Come, and behold the beauty of our Ladies, and their disposing at a night of solemnity. 1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 117 Figures and Fountains.. whose Diversity, as well in the disposing, as in what they consist of, yields a very agreeable Prospect to the Eye.
2. Ordering, control, management, disposal.
1406E.E. Wills (1882) 13 Seruauntys, at the Dysposyng of Thomas Roos. 1530Palsgr. 214/1 Disposyng, administration. 1611Bible Prov. xvi. 33 The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. 1647R. Gentilis tr. Malvezzi's Chiefe Events 203 Those..shall be at the Dutchesses disposing. 1656Artif. Handsom. 50 margin, An heart unsatisfied with Gods works and disposings.
3. Bestowal, dispensing, expenditure.
1638Duke of Hamilton in H. Papers (Camden) 57 The intentiounes uhich your Matti might..haue had for the desposing of thatt place. 1676Deed Trin. Coll. in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) II. 520 The free disposeing of the said two Chambers..to such person..as hee shall appoint. 1751C. Labelye Westm. Br. 67 Frugality in the disposing of publick Money.
4. The action of making ready or inclined; preparation; disposition, inclination: see dispose v. 5, 6.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 175 Yit disposyng dwelliþ in hem to make hem þenke amys. 14..Lydg. Secrees 1206 Phebus causith dysposyng to gladness. 1611Bible Prov. xvi. 1 The preparations [marg. disposings] of the heart..are from the Lord.
▪ II. diˈsposing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That disposes, in various senses: see the verb.
of (in) disposing mind or memory: so sound in mind and memory as to be capable of making a will.
1627–77Feltham Resolves i. x. 15 Surely God that made disposing Nature, knows her better, than imperfect man. 1648Bury Wills (Camden) 200 In full vnderstanding and memory, and of a disposeing and testamentary mind. 1649Ibid. 220, I Mary Chapman..being in disposeing memorie. 1797Burke Will in Wks. (1842) I. 38, I, Edmund Burke..being of sound and disposing mind, do make my last will and testament. 1803Chenevix in Phil. Trans. XCIII. 304 Disposing affinity, and assimilation.
Hence diˈsposingly adv., in a disposing way.
1625Bp. R. Montagu Appeale to Cæsar i. ix. 94 Christians doe hold and beleeve it too, [Deum ire per omnes] but disposingly, etc. in his providence. |