disponebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dispono, disponere, disposui, dispositus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
dispose, place here and there, distribute; set/lay out; administer/manage/order;; appoint, post, station; allot, assign; arrange, ordain, prescribe; regulate;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...brachii mensuram et crassitudinem excederet. Haec autem ita disponebat, ut cum uirum ipse pateretur, auersus omnes admissarii..."I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quantam exspectaret invidiam luce, non cogitabat, sed disponebat indicium certum, indubitatum, sine errore quod noverca sequeretur usque..."