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diˈspositively, adv. ? Obs.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a dispositive manner.
†1. By way of or in regard to disposition, inclination, or tendency: opposed to effectively, actually; sometimes nearly = Potentially. Obs.
1475Bk. Noblesse 50 If a constellacion or prophesie signified that suche a yere..there shulde falle werre, pestilence or deerthe of vitaile to a contree..it is said but dispositiflie and not of necessitie or certente. c1624Lushington Resurr. Serm. in Phenix (1708) II. 489 Not to organize the body (it was not dismembred nor any way corrupted, not so much as ‘in fieri’—no, not dispositively). 1630Donne Serm. (1632) 39 Prayer actually accompanied with shedding of teares, and dispositively in a readines to shed blood..in necessary cases. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. ix. 124 That axiome in Philosophy, that the generation of one thing, is the corruption of another, although it be substantially true concerning the forme and matter, is also dispositively verified in the efficient or producer. 1651Baxter Inf. Bapt. 92 It is sufficient that the Parent be virtually and dispositively at present a Believer. 1666Boyle Orig. Formes & Qual. (1667) 32 If there were no sensitive Beings, those Bodies that are now the Objects of our Senses, would be but dispositively, if I may so speak, endowed with Colours, Tasts, and the like, and actually but onely with those more Catholick affections of Bodies, Figure, Motion, Texture, &c.
†2. In a way that disposes. Obs.
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 81 And thus touched with pleasant heates..they began to boyle and kindle my colde feare, and dispositively to adopt my altered heate to sincere love.
†3. At the disposition of some controlling power.
1616R. Carpenter Past. Charge 42 Euery instrument worketh dispositively at the command of the principall agent. |