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In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne. Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.

A disposer.

gative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.

a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. Shak.

Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson.

One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; a commentator. Bp. Horsley.

Pertaining to, or containing, exposition; serving to explain; explanatory; illustrative; exegetical. A glossary or expository index to the poetical writers. Johnson.

of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. "From imposition of strict laws." Milton. Made more solemn by the imposition of hands. Hammond.

Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent. -- In*ap"po*site*ly, adv.

Not composite; uncompounded; simple. Incomposite numbers. See Prime numbers, under Prime.

The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury.

A situation or position beneath. Kane.

An intermediate depot or station between one commercial city or country and another. Mitford.

The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.

To place in close connection or contiguity; to juxtapose. Derham.

A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. Glanvill. Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. Hare.

A wrong position.

Erroneous disposal or application. Bp. Hall.

Wrong exposition.

A failure to deposit or throw down.