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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dispose \Dis*pose"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Disposed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disposing}.] [F. disposer; pref. dis- + poser to place. See {Pose}.]
1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
Who hath disposed the whole world? --Job xxxiv. 13.
All ranged in order and disposed with grace. --Pope.
The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. --Spenser.
2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
The knightly forms of combat to dispose. --Dryden.
3. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor. --Evelyn.
4. To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.
Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes. --Dryden.
Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. --Bacon.
{To dispose of}. (a) To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use.
Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons. --Locke. (b) To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.
More water . . . than can be disposed of. --T. Burnet.
I have disposed of her to a man of business. --Tatler.
A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. --Waller.
Syn: To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disposed \Dis*posed"\, p. a.
1. Inclined; minded.
When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. --Acts xviii. 27.
2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl.
{Well disposed}, in good condition; in good health. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disposed
adjective
1: having made preparations; "prepared to take risks" [syn: {disposed(p)}, {fain}, {inclined(p)}, {prepared}]
2: (usually followed by 'to') naturally disposed toward; "he is apt to ignore matters he considers unimportant"; "I am not minded to answer any questions" [syn: {apt(p)}, {disposed(p)}, {given(p)}, {minded(p)}, {tending(p)}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "disposed": acquiescent, agreeable, alacritous, aligned, amenable, apt, apt to, ardent, arranged, arrayed, assorted, bent, calculated to, categorized, classified, compliant, composed, consenting, constituted, content, cooperative, disposed to, dispositioned, docile, eager, enthusiastic, fain, favorable, favorably disposed, favorably inclined, fixed, forward, game, given, given to, graded, grouped, harmonized, in the mind, in the mood, inclined, inclined to, liable, liable to, likely, likely to, marshaled, methodized, minded, minded to, normalized, ordered, orderly, organized, placed, pliant, predisposed, predisposed to, prompt, prone, prone to, quick, ranged, ranked, ready, ready and willing, ready to, receptive, regularized, regulated, responsive, routinized, sorted, standardized, subject, synchronized, systematized, tractable, well-disposed, well-inclined, willed, willing, willinghearted, zealous
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