Crossword clues for disposed
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Dispose \Dis*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disposed; p. pr. & vb. n. Disposing.] [F. disposer; pref. dis- + poser to place. See Pose.]
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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.
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To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
The knightly forms of combat to dispose.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Disposed \Dis*posed"\, p. a.
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Inclined; minded.
When he was disposed to pass into Achaia.
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Inclined to mirth; jolly. [Obs.]
--Beau. & Fl.Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. [Obs.]
--Chaucer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "inclined, in the mood," past participle adjective from dispose. Meaning "in a certain condition" is late 14c.; "arranged" is 15c.
Wiktionary
1 Inclined; minded. 2 (lb en obsolete) Inclined to mirth; jolly. v
(en-past of: dispose)
WordNet
adj. having made preparations; "prepared to take risks" [syn: disposed(p), fain, inclined(p), prepared]
(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)]
Usage examples of "disposed".
Howard was disposed to protest, to offer morehe was most urgently in earnest, he protested that he could not wait, was ravished by desire, a great deal too warm to abide delay .
President, were disposed to take refuge in the Cave of Adullam, where from chagrin and sheer vexation the Vice-President had too frequently been found.
There can be little doubt that the Goths who were minded to revolt from the son of Triarius and who were not to be received into favour by the Emperor, were Ostrogoths, still dimly conscious of the old tie which bound them to the glorious house of Amala, and more than half disposed to forsake the service of their squinting upstart chief in order to follow the banners of the young hero, son of Theudemir.
God Almighty, the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and of the holy canons, and of the undefiled Virgin Mary, the mother and patroness of our Saviour, and of all the celestial virtues, angels, archangels, thrones, dominions, powers, cherubims and seraphims, and of the holy patriarchs, prophets, and of all the apostles and evangelists, and of the holy innocents who in the sight of the Holy Lamb are found worthy to sing the new song, of the holy martyrs and holy confessors, and of the holy virgins, and of all the saints, and together with all the holy and elect of God: we excommunicate and anathematise him or them, malefactor or malefactors, and from the threshold of the holy church of God Almighty we sequester them, that he or they may be tormented, disposed and delivered over with Dathan and Abiram, with those who say to the Lord God, Depart from us, we desire not Thy ways.
My Angela listened willingly, but little disposed to talk herself, she seldom answered, and she displayed good sense rather than wit.
We breakfasted together, and having asked him as we were at table for what profession he felt an inclination, he answered that he was disposed to do anything to earn an honourable living.
She answered that, being perfectly disposed to submit to his will, she would gladly obey him.
Johns, by nature as well as by education, was disposed to look distrustfully upon any sudden conviction of duty which had its spring in any extraordinary exaltation of feeling, rather than in that full intellectual seizure of the Divine Word, which it seemed to him could come only after a determined wrestling with those dogmas that to his mind were the aptest and compactest expression of the truth toward which we must agonize.
I had determined to take the last, bold stride in my campaign of suitable working attire for archaeologically disposed ladies.
Erwig poured two tots of arrak, one of which he placed before Cugel, then disposed himself for conversation.
He looked round the barroom with rather an anxious air, and, retreating with his valuables to the warmest corner, disposed them under his chair, sat down, and looked rather apprehensively up at the worthy whose heels illustrated the end of the mantel-piece, who was spitting from right to left, with a courage and energy rather alarming to gentlemen of weak nerves and particular habits.
Since he was riding a battleship, he disposed his forces so that the battleships could have a glorious time sinking-cripples, and he went Steaming north with the lot of them.
She had, thankfully, disposed of the black bombazine and wore a soft gray gown cinched tightly at the waist and buttoned up to a neckline that dipped well below her shoulders.
On further examination, he ascertained that there were nearly a dozen huts or breakwinds, so disposed as to betoken that one of the native tribes had made it their temporary dwelling-place.
If Burkitt disposed of Tsana while Gragg was gone, he might turn around and try to find a way to blame it on the Markanians.