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Dispose

Dispose (dispose)
v. t.(?)
Dis*pose"
[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)

Dispose

Dispose (dispose)
v. i.(?)
Dis*pose"
  1. To bargain; to make terms.
    [Obs.]

    She had disposed with Cæsar. Shak.

Dispose

Dispose (dispose)
n.
Dis*pose"
  1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
    [Obs.]

    But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires. Speed.

  2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.
    [Obs.]

    He hath a person, and a smooth dispose
    To be suspected.     Shak.













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