Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a dispersive manner; by dispersion: as, dispersively refracted light.
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- adverb In a
dispersive way. - adverb With regard to
dispersion .
Etymologies
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Examples
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If they spring straight from the heart, though in different directions, dispersively, then magic must also start from the common centre; and, though its divergence from religion tends to become total, at first, and indeed it may be for long, the discrepancy between them is rather felt uneasily than recognized clearly.
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His latest argument in the premises is as follows: Man, who is by nature dispersively individualistic, is brought into industrial coordination only by coercion.
American Negro Slavery A Survey of the Supply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime Ulrich Bonnell Phillips 1905
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"_Come_ along!" she says, dispersively and emphatically.
Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878
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The political influences spoken of before, operating no doubt with others of which it is unnecessary to speak, have acted dispersively on the sum of national reputations, and equitably allotted to almost every part of the fair island some _parcenary_ share of fame, some hallowing memory, like a household genius, to preside over and endear its localities.
The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 Various 1840
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