disposing

adj

1. Acting to predispose or incline.

   “The indifference to life which is produced by opium is precisely the most disposing excitement to suicide.”

   “Chlorpromazine is believed to be the most disposing to seizures, with a frequency of 3% to 5% at moderate (greater than 900 mg/day) doses.”

   “Table 26 addresses the question of whether education of the same level is more disposing to a modern mode if it has been acquired in the recent than in the distant past.”

   “Autumn was considered the season most disposing to melancholy.”

2. Agreeable; Leaving one kindly disposed.

   “Subsequently, however, as the parties manifested a more disposing demeanor, the lower court appointed a commissioner to appraise the value of the improvements on the land.”

   “Their cooperation was really anticipated and their middle position gave evangelization a more disposing tone as the message could be given from native evangelizers too.”

   “A warm smile and the shine of intelligent blue eyes were also very disposing ...”

3. Capable of specifying a complete and reasonable disposal of one's estate.

   “In the name and fear of God, I Jane Ford of Oldswinford in the county of Worcester Widdow Relict & Exec of Joseph Ford gent my late dear husband deceased having in mind the certainty of death but great uncertainty of the time thereof & being desirous to settle my affairs & being now in perfect mind & most disposing memory (thanks to Almighty God) Doe make & ordain this my last Will and Testament […]”

   “And it is said by Lord Coke, in the Marquis of Winchester's case, (m) that it is not sufficient that the testator be of memory when he makes his Will, to answer familiar and usual questions, but he ought to have a disposing memory so as to be able to make a disposition of his property with understanding and reason; and that is such a memory which the law calls sane and perfect memory.”

   “And though the disability of coverture is, in some respects, distinguishable from and less absolute than that of infancy, (a feme covert having, it is said, a disposing mind , but not a disposing power, while an infant has neither the one nor the other,) yet the principle seems, according to the authorities, to apply to the attempted dispositions of married women.”

4. Involving the disposal or legal transfer of property.

   “Bayley, J., before whom the prisoner was tried, said, to bring the case within the statute, the order must be such as, on the face of it, imports to be made by a person who has a disposing power over the funds.”

   “The agreement has a 'disposing effect' and Kevin Prosser QC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court had to decide whether this meant that the contract was void for not being made in writing and therefore not complying with s2.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of dispose

noun

1. The act by which things are disposed, or set out.