disposingly

English

Etymology

From disposing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

disposingly (not comparable)

1. So as to dispose of something.
   • 1850, William Forbes, Considerationes modestæ et pacificæ controversiarum de justificatione, purgatorio, invocatione sanctorum et Christo Mediatore:

     […] it is the duty of pastors to exhort their people to perform these works, because, if they be rightly done, they bring with them from the divine benignity and promise, forgiveness of sins, in some mode, whether disposingly or instrumentally.

   • 1910?, Marion Hill, Harmony Hall

     This blot she removed upon her finger and then rubbed disposingly into her velvet fillet.

References

• “disposingly”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.