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English
Etymology
From French, from Latin disponĕre (“to arrange”).
Verb
dispone (third-person singular simple present dispones, present participle disponing, simple past and past participle disponed)
- (transitive, law) To convey legal authority to another.
1898, R. S. Craig, Adam Laing, The Hawick Tradition of 1514: The Town's Common Flag and Seal, page 240:The said William Aitken, being of new solemnly sworn, &c., depones he is a Burgess of Hawick, and had the property of a house which he now liferents, the fee being disponed to his son-in-law, Bailie Robert Scot, for the use of his son William, his daughter, Bailie Scot's wife, having paid the price of the house; depones sixty years ago Gilbert Elliot was tenant in Nether Southfield, who broke Hawick Common by plowing a part of it, which the Deponent saw at the Common-Riding when the Magistrates and other persons at the Common-Riding potched the ground he had plowed, and was then sown that he might not reap the crop of this.
- (transitive, obsolete) To set in order; to dispose.
Derived terms
References
- Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 132
Anagrams
Italian
Verb
dispone
- third-person singular present indicative of disporre
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
dispōne
- second-person singular present active imperative of dispōnō
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /disˈpone/
- Rhymes: -one
- Syllabification: dis‧po‧ne
Verb
dispone
- third-person singular present indicative of disponer