dispositively

English

Etymology

dispositive +‎ -ly

Adverb

dispositively (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) In a dispositive manner; 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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dispositively”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)