SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: DISPOSITIVE

SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: DISPOSITIVE

PRONUNCIATION:  

(dis-POZ-i-tiv)

MEANING:

(adjective) : Relating to or bringing about the settlement of a case.

ETYMOLOGY:

From dispose, from Old French disposer, from Latin disponere (to arrange), from dis- (apart) + ponere (to put). Ultimately from the Indo-European root apo- (off or away), which is also the source of pose, apposite, after, off, awkward, post, puny, apposite, and apropos. Earliest documented use: 1483.

USAGE:

"Marilyn Yalom supplements her summaries of love in French culture with lively, if hardly dispositive, anecdotes from her own encounters with France and the French.
How the French Invented Love; The New Yorker; Feb 4, 2013.

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