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disponible, a. (and n.)
(dɪˈspəʊnɪb(ə)l; freq. as Fr. dispɔnibl)
[f. L. dispōn-ĕre to dispone + -ble; Cf. F. disponible.]
Capable of being disponed or assigned. Also absol. as n.
1899G. Meredith Let. 31 May (1970) III. 1328 You are more disponible and should decide to come to your friend. 1908H. James Novels & Tales III. p. vii, He [sc. Turgenev] saw them, in that fashion, as disponibles, saw them subject to the chances, the complications of existence. Ibid. V. p. xviii, That extremely disponible figure of Christina Light whom I had ten years before found left on my hands at the conclusion of ‘Roderick Hudson’. 1912Conrad 'Twixt Land & Sea (1914) i. 11 He gave me the names of all the disponible ships with their tonnage and the names of their commanders. 1961R. C. Knight tr. Bonnard's Gr. Civ. III. i. 17 Euripides is open to every interest of mankind... [He] is always disponible... He does not know how to forget his feelings and efface their expression, when any situation touches him too deeply. 1965Punch 24 Mar. 447/3 One's picture of the higher civil servant—adroit, informed, disponible, never in the way or out of it.
So disponiˈbility, capability of being disponed; condition of being at one's disposal.
1862Times 6 Feb. 8/2 We are glad to have a Government in disponibility as well as one actually at work. |