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disposing (comparative more disposing, superlative most disposing)

1. Acting to predispose or incline.
   • 1859, “Opium and Dr. Engledue”, in The British Homoeopathic Review, volume 3, page 118:

     The indifference to life which is produced by opium is precisely the most disposing excitement to suicide.

   • 1989, A. James Giannini, ‎Andrew Edmund Slaby, Drugs of Abuse, page 197:

     Chlorpromazine is believed to be the most disposing to seizures, with a frequency of 3% to 5% at moderate (greater than 900 mg/day) doses.

   • 2023, Richard A. Apostle, ‎Charles Y. Glock, ‎Thomas Piazza, The Anatomy of Racial Attitudes, page 158:

     Table 26 addresses the question of whether education of the same level is more disposing to a modern mode if it has been acquired in the recent than in the distant past.

   • 2024, Robert Boland, ‎Marcia L. Verduin, Kaplan and Sadock's Comprehensive Text of Psychiatry:

     Autumn was considered the season most disposing to melancholy.

2. Agreeable; Leaving one kindly disposed.
   • 1980 January 7, Ricardo G. De Leon, “Decisions of the Court of Appeals”, in Official Gazette (Philippines), volume 76, number 1, page 159:

     Subsequently, however, as the parties manifested a more disposing demeanor, the lower court appointed a commissioner to appraise the value of the improvements on the land.

   • 2001, Nkem Hyginus M. V. Chigere, Foreign Missionary Background and Indigenous Evangelization in Igboland, page 288:

     Their cooperation was really anticipated and their middle position gave evangelization a more disposing tone as the message could be given from native evangelizers too.

   • 2021, Лилия Кадет, The Big Eyes’ Dragon:

     A warm smile and the shine of intelligent blue eyes were also very disposing ...

3. (law) Capable of specifying a complete and reasonable disposal of one's estate.
   • 1721 July 4, Last Will and Testament of Jane Ford:

     In the name and fear of God, I Jane Ford of Oldswinford in the county of Worcester Widdow Relict & Exec of Joseph Ford gent my late dear husband deceased having in mind the certainty of death but great uncertainty of the time thereof & being desirous to settle my affairs & being now in perfect mind & most disposing memory (thanks to Almighty God) Doe make & ordain this my last Will and Testament […]

   • 1849, Edward Vaughan Williams, A Treatise on the Law of Executors and Administrators, page 170:

     And it is said by Lord Coke, in the Marquis of Winchester's case, (m) that it is not sufficient that the testator be of memory when he makes his Will, to answer familiar and usual questions, but he ought to have a disposing memory so as to be able to make a disposition of his property with understanding and reason; and that is such a memory which the law calls sane and perfect memory.

   • 1880, Thomas Jarman, ‎Joseph Fitz Randolph, ‎William Talcott, A Treatise on Wills - Volume 2, page 9:

     And though the disability of coverture is, in some respects, distinguishable from and less absolute than that of infancy, (a feme covert having, it is said, a disposing mind , but not a disposing power, while an infant has neither the one nor the other,) yet the principle seems, according to the authorities, to apply to the attempted dispositions of married women.

4. (law) Involving the disposal or legal transfer of property.
   • 1852, Henry Roscoe, A Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases, page 526:

     Bayley, J., before whom the prisoner was tried, said, to bring the case within the statute, the order must be such as, on the face of it, imports to be made by a person who has a disposing power over the funds.

   • 1859, John Ramsay McCulloch, A Select Collection of Scarce and Valuable Economical Tracts, page 311:

     It seems also we may form an inference, that in the profits of the two laborious classes, either in the culture of the earth or industry, there is a disposable portion, namely, that which answers to the interest of the advances, calculated on the current rate of interest of money lent; it appears also that this conclusion seems to agree with what we have said, that the mere class of proprietors had a revenue properly so called, a disposing revenue, and that all the members of the other classes had only salaries or profits.

   • 2020, Emma Lees, The Principles of Land Law, page 102:

     The agreement has a 'disposing effect' and Kevin Prosser QC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court had to decide whether this meant that the contract was void for not being made in writing and therefore not complying with s2.

disposing

1. present participle and gerund of dispose

disposing (plural disposings)

1. The act by which things are disposed, or set out.