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Undisponit, -yt, -ed, p.p. Also: undispounet, -ed, wndisponit, -ed, ondisponit. [Dispone v.] Of a material or non-material thing or benefit: Not assigned, disposed of or granted (also, upon, or (be a person) to (another)).(1) 1507 Treas. Acc. III 260.
Of the taffeti bocht in Flandrez … to the chair triumphale xxiij elne, and part remanand ȝit undisponit, extending to ix or x elne or tharby 1511 Reg. Privy S. I 348/2.
To do thairto siclike as the said nonentres war in the kingis handis undisponit 1545 Corr. M. Lorraine 132.
We have … disponit the said ward and hes tane compositioun for the samin. Praying your grace to haif ws apardonit therof, for gif it were yit restand undisponit we suld do as we wald haif done of befoir to the satisfactioun of your grace 1600-1610 Melvill 54.
The Regent keipit the benefice in his hand undisponit mikle of twa yeir 1664 Rothesay B. Rec. 80.
All lands and annualrents lyand within this brughe that was undispounet be him befoir his deceis a1670 Scot Staggering State 33.
Little … is left of the lands unwadset or undisponed at this day(b) 1515 Fife Sheriff Ct. 19.
The cornes … to remane wpone The ground wndisponit in the handis of the wynnar(2) 1456 Innes Sketches 406 n.
I geve and assignys to my douchtir Marion al the lave of my landis that I have undisponyt upon a1597-1617 Hist. Jas. VI (1804) 194.
They … shall leaue the samen [sc. corn] stackitt in graynges, or upoun the fields, undisponit upoun onie way 1663 Edinb. Test. LXXI 141.
Goodes & geir … vnsold & wndisponed vpon be her the tyme of her deceis(b) 1488 Acta Conc. I 93/1.
Gif thar be ony of thar gudis in place on disponit apoun(3) 1529–30 Reg. Privy S. II 66/1.
The tua merk land and ane half of Cragfyn and Bogary, … wer in his handis the tyme of his forfaltour undisponit to ony personis 1535–6 Reg. Privy S. II 275/1.
All … soumes of money … undisponit be our soverane lord to ony persoun 1580 Edinb. B. Rec. IV 183.
To preserue and keip the saidis buikis diligentlie and faythfullie vnlent, vndisponit, or putt away to any maner of persoun 1597 Bk. Univ. Kirk III 933.
Bishopprickes … quhilkis as ȝit ar vndisponed to ony person … salbe onelie disponed be his majestie to actual preachers and ministers in the Kirk(b) a1651 Calderwood II 299.
Howsoever the patronages of benefices may apperteane to herself, yitt the reteaning of them in her owne hands, undispouned to qualifeid persouns, is ungodlie