dispone, v. Chiefly Sc. Obs. exc. in legal sense 4.
(dɪˈspəʊn)
Also 5 des-, dyspone, dispoyn, 6 disponde.
[ad. L. dispōnĕre to set in different places, place here and there, arrange, dispose, f. dis- 1 + pōnĕre to place: cf. rare OF. disponer (Godef.). Dispoyn and disponde were dialectal variants, the latter possibly from OF. despondre. The Latin verb exists in It. as disponere, disporre, in Sp. disponer, Pg. despor, and survived in OF. despondre. The latter was supplanted by desposer, disposer, as shown under dispose. Disponer was a learned adaptation of disponĕre.]
† 1. trans. To set in order, arrange, dispose. Obs.
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iv. 936 (964) God seth euery þing..And hem desponeth, þourgh his ordenaunce. 1375 Barbour Bruce xi. 29 God..disponis at his liking, Efter his ordinanss, all thyng. 1533 Gau Richt Vay (1888) 90 Lat vsz thank thy godlie wil quhilk disponis althing to our guid. 1558–68 Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. 101 b, Putte it, and dispone it, in a panne or scillet, upon sifted ashes. 1588 A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 107 Y⊇ clerks..to assist y⊇ priests..to dispone y⊇ people resorting to y⊇ haly mysteries. |
† 2. To dispose physically or mentally to or for (something); to incline. Obs.
| c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. ix. xxvii. 328 As he dysponit hym for that. a 1510 Douglas K. Hart ii. 58 Than Ȝouthheid said..dispone ȝow with me ryde. 1553 Q. Kennedy Compend. Tract. in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 144 The Spirite of God, disponand every gude Christin man to be the mair able to keip the law of God. 1613 M. Ridley Magn. Bodies 12 The Magneticall Inclinatory-needle..is conformed and disponed unto the Axis of the Earth. |
† 3. To dispose of, give away, distribute. Obs.
(In the form dispond there is perh. confusion with dispend.)
| 1429 Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1835) 80 All yees goodes and parcelles aforesaid I wyll my son doo and dispoyn as he wol answer afore god. c 1500 Lancelot 1774 His gudis al for to dispone also In his seruice. 1545 Wills & Inv. N.C. (1835) 113 Qwhom I mayke my Executoure to dispone and ordane all thynges for the healthe of my soulle. 1580 Ibid. 432 My goodes I will that it be disponded Amongeste yowe thre. |
† b. To expend, lay out (upon some object).
| 1570 Bp. of Ross in Robertson Hist. Scotl. App. 67 The sums you writ for, to be disponit upon the furnishing of the Castle of Edinburgh. |
4. Sc. Law. To make over, convey, assign, grant, officially or in legal form.
| a 1555 Lyndesay Tragedy 348 Imprudent Prencis..Quhilk doith dispone all office spirituall. 1560 in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) III. 397 The duke's grace..is already disponing to sundry men certain rowmes in these north parts. 1639 Marquis of Hamilton Explan. Meaning Oath 16 All bishopricks vaicking..shall be only disponed to actuall preachers and ministers in the kirk. 1721 Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 577 The person who disponed the ground not being able to make his right to it good. 1832 Austin Jurispr. (1879) II. li. 864 It is of the essence of property that the person presently entitled may dispone the property. 1861 W. Bell Dict. Law Scot. 292 The disponer or maker of the deed ‘sells and dispones’, or where the deed is gratuitous, ‘gives, grants, and dispones’, the subject of the deed to the receiver, who is technically called the disponee. |
† 5. intr. or absol. To order matters, arrange, make disposition or arrangement. Obs.
| c 1500 Lancelot 1590 This maister saith, ‘How lykith god dispone!’ 1508 Dunbar Poems iv. 98 Sen for the deid remeid is non, Best is that we for dede [i.e. death] dispone. 1500–20 Ibid. xxxvi. 13 Quhill thow hes space se thow dispone..Thyne awin gud spend quhill thow hes space. a 1605 Montgomerie Misc. Poems xxxiv. 36 All lyes into ȝour will, As ȝe list to dispone. |
† 6. intr. with of (on, upon): To dispose of, deal with. Obs.
| a. c 1374 Chaucer Troylus v. 300 Of my moeble þow dispone Right as þe semeth best is for to done. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. III. 14 Of his tua sisteris first he wald dispone. c 1565 Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (1768) 120 (Jam.) No casualty could fall to the King in Scotland but was disponed of by the advice of Cochran. |
| b. 1546 Sc. Acts Mary (1814) 474 (Jam.) It is vncertane how thai will dispone vpoun him, and quether thai will let him to liberte or nocht. 1639 J. Corbet Ungirding Scott. Arm. 16 Yow spair not..to..dispone upon the Kings forts and castles, as you think good. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. v, The Laird of Bucklaw's fine to be disponed upon. 1820 ― Monast. xxxiii, To dispone upon the goods. |
Hence diˈsponed ppl. a., assinged, conveyed, made over; diˈsponing vbl. n., disposing.
| 1564 J. Rastell Confut. Jewell's Serm. 114 b, The makyng or disponing of any creature. 1823 Brown Hist. Brit. Churhes I. iii. 72 These or higher superiors might seize on said disponed houses or lands for themselves. |