supercede; dispositive

[Jonathan Lighter]

DispAHzitive.

Stress as indicated.

JL

On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 4:40 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at gmail.com>wrote:

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> Did he say dispouz at tiv (dispose-i-tive) or dispUHzitiv (dis-positive)?
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> VS-)
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> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jonathan Lighter
> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
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> > -...
> > II
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> > George Will explained this morning that evangelical Christians will be
> > "dispositive" in the Iowa Republican primary.
> >
> > His meaning is not in any dictionary, though it obviously comes from the
> > legal sense which l I'll leave you to look up.
> >
> > Contextually it just meant "decisive," which is obviously too boring a
> > concept in the high-powered jargonesque world of today.
> >
> > Frankly, I thought  he meant something like "not entirely negative,"
> > but sociological consideration showed that was most unlikely.
> >
> > JL
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