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<blockquote>His <b>dispositive</b> wisdom and power. <i>Bates.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "<i>Dispositive</i> holiness."

<i>Jer. Taylor.</i>

<h1>Dispositively</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pos"i*tive*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<blockquote>Do <b>dispositively</b> what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. <i>Boyle.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dispositor</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pos"it*or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. See <er>Disposition</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>A disposer.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Astrol.)</fld> <def>The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Crabb.</i>

<h1>Dispossess</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis`pos*sess"</hw> <tt>(?; see <er>Possess</er>)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dispossessed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dispossessing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Pref. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>possess</ets>: cf. F. <ets>d\'82poss\'82der</ets>.]</ety> <def>To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by <i>of</i> before the thing taken away; <as>as, to <ex>dispossess</ex> a king of his crown</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Usurp the land, and <b>dispossess</b> the swain. <i>Goldsmith.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dispossession</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis`pos*ses"sion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>d\'82possession</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed.</def>

<i>Bp. Hall.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Law)</fld> <def>The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also <altname>ouster</altname>.</def>

<h1>Dispossessor</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis`pos*sess"or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who dispossesses.</def>

<i>Cowley.</i>

<h1>Dispost</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*post"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To eject from a post; to displace.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Davies (Holy Roode).</i>

<h1>Disposure</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*po"sure</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Dispose</er>.]</ety>