disposingly

disposingly

English

Etymology

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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disposingly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)