Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • With arrangement; in good order; properly.

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Examples

  • I answered that Your Majesty danced not so high or disposedly as she did and 'twas true, for she forgets all modesty in dancing and leaps about like a man.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • I answered that Your Majesty danced not so high or disposedly as she did and 'twas true, for she forgets all modesty in dancing and leaps about like a man.

    Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles George, Margaret 1987

  • Finally, Miss Twitterton, tearful but nattered, was conveyed to Pagford by Bunter in the car, with her bicycle perched ‘high and disposedly’ upon the back seat.

    Busman's Honeymoon Sayers, Dorothy L. 1937

  • The sight of Psmith and Mr Rossiter proceeding high and disposedly to a mutual lunch became quite common, and ceased to excite remark.

    Psmith in the City 1928

  • On which Mr. Beach, extending a crooked elbow toward the housekeeper, would say, "Mr.. Twemlow!" and lead the way, high and disposedly, down the passage, followed in order of rank by the rest of the company, in couples, to the steward's room.

    Something New 1928

  • It had cost Mr. McEachern some pains to learn this lesson, but he had done it; and he proceeded on the present occasion to conduct himself high and disposedly, according to instructions from headquarters.

    The Gem Collector 1928

  • Then came Venus -- an exact copy of my own plaster cast -- serene, calm-eyed, dancing "high and disposedly" like

    The World I Live In Helen Keller 1924

  • Here ceremonial might be viewed in its finest flower, and we conducted ourselves, like Queen Elizabeth when she trod the measure, "high and disposedly."

    The Golden Age 1915

  • There was the master cook, comfortably stout and walking 'high and disposedly', as Queen

    Medieval People Eileen Edna Power 1914

  • But the groups had drawn together into one, and were watching a child who, solitary upon the grass-plot, paced through a measure before them 'high and disposedly.'

    Brother Copas Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

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