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[ [OF. F. dis Without his eye and hand, his dispositive wisdom and power, the whole frame would disband and fall into confusion and ruin. Bates , Great Duty of Resignation. 2. Pertaining to inclination or natural disposition. Conversation.. so impertinent and extravagant as is not to be reduced to any rules or bounds of reason and religion; no, not under any intentional piety, and habitual or dispositive holine . Jer. Taylor (?), Artif. Handsomene , p. 84. Dispositive clause. See clause . dispositivelyt (dis-poz'i-tiv-li), adv . 1. In a dispositive manner; distributively. Sir T. Browne .-2. By natural or moral disposition. One act may make us do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally,. break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle , Works, VI. 10. dispositort (dis-poz'i-tor), n. [OF. des posit or , dis posit our = Pg. dispositor = It. dispositore , dispositor L. as if * dispositor, When the dispositor of the planet signifying the thing asked after is himself disposed by the lord of the ascendant, it is a good sign. Raymond Lully (trans.).