disposit
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin dispositus, past participle of dispōnō.
Verb
[edit]disposit (third-person singular simple present disposits, present participle dispositing, simple past and past participle disposited)
- (transitive) To deposit.
- 1952, Frank Twyman, Prism and lens making: a textbook for optical glassworkers:
- But the method did not become practicable until Liebig discovered a simple chemical process for dispositing a thin film of silver on a glass surface.
- (astrology, transitive) To be located in the house of the sign ruled by the planet. For example, when a planet is in the house Gemini, it disposits Mercury because Mercury is the ruling sign of Gemini.
- 1983, Rose Lineman, Jan Popelka, Compendium of Astrology:
- Venus then indirectly disposits all planets in Leo because these planets are disposited by the Sun, ruler of Leo, and Venus disposits the Sun.