Pronounced: TOO-KWOH-kwee, noun
Notes: I didn’t know this phrase, but many of us have experienced what it means
Yesterday’s word
The word dispositive means “relating to or bringing about the settlement of a case”
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1400s
Background / Comments
I thought that our word might mean “not positive”, with dis- meaning “not”, but that is clearly incorrect. Our word came from dispose, which came from the Old French word disposer, which came from the Latin word disponere (to arrange), which is composed of dis- (apart) and ponere (to put).
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