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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 To make someone susceptible to something (such as a disease). 2 To make someone inclined to something in advance; to influence.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s, "to put into a certain frame of mind," perhaps a back-formation from predisposition . Related: Predisposed ; predisposing .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And their education and trailing had predisposed them to hard work. ▪ Diabetes predisposes the patient to fungus or other opportunistic infections involving the intracranial contents. ▪ I was predisposed not to like him; maybe ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Predispose \Pre`dis*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Predisposed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Predisposing .] [Pref. pre- + dispose: cf. F. pr['e]disposer.] To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. make susceptible; "This illness predisposes you to gain weight"
Usage examples of predispose.
Whatever tends to favor an undue accumulation of blood in the hemorrhoidal veins predisposes to piles.
The predisposing causes are conceded to be assimilative and nervous debility.
Somebody circumstantially predisposed to wealth, who thinks for herself and wants other people to, too.
People like Ann Campbell are already predisposed to this type of personality, so they gravitate toward someplace like West Point.
If these figures really are typical for an average lion pride, then any gene that predisposed males to behave towards other males as if they were nearly half brothers would have positive survival value.
We will contend that these two agencies, which played so critical a role in her being dragged by the hair to the dock, were predisposed to exact revenge on her by concocting the evidence against her.
Lord of Patrice had no interest in acrobats, and, knowing that, I was already predisposed to dislike him.
By virtue of my vocation I should have been predisposed to believe that all people, under certain circumstances, are capable of almost any crime.
Prosecutors had amassed a jury pool of over one thousand people but were having a tough time finding anyone not predisposed to finding Joel guilty even before going through the formality of a trial.
For a man predisposed to stoniness of the heart, this surely was unwholesome liquor.
My journey, though by rail, and as easy as that of the Persian gentleman who skimmed the air, seated on a piece of carpet, predisposed me to sleep.
Aunt Ida had tearfully explained that the Barretts had a bad gene, a gene that left them predisposed to mental illness.
With the memory of past feuds and hatreds in his mind, and predisposed against any Vaufontaine, his greeting was courteously disdainful, his manner preoccupied.
Those who lead a sedentary life and indulge in rich food and liquor appear to be predisposed to this disease.
Shridharani believes that the Hindese were willing to accept Satyagraha first because, unarmed under British law, no other means were available to them, and then because they were predisposed to the method because of the Hindu philosophy of non-violence and the mystic belief that truth will triumph eventually since it is a force greater than the physical.