dispone

See also: disponé

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)

1. (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.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To set in order; to dispose.

Derived terms

• disponee

References

• Chambers's Etymological Dictionary, 1896, p. 132

Anagrams

• Pinedos, pedions, spinode, spondei

Italian

Verb

dispone

1. third-person singular present indicative of disporre

Anagrams

• spondei

Latin

Verb

dispōne

1. second-person singular present active imperative of dispōnō

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /disˈpone/ [d̪isˈpo.ne]
• Rhymes: -one
• Syllabification: dis‧po‧ne

Verb

dispone

1. third-person singular present indicative of disponer