Crossword clues for disposing
disposing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of dispose English)
Usage examples of "disposing".
However, not seeing her disposing herself to play, I was beginning to imagine that she had only been indulging in a jest, when she suddenly made the strings resound.
Our friend had two of them, but the great friendship he entertains towards you has given him the happy idea of disposing of one in your favour.
Then I help her to put her shoes on, and I pass the shirt over her head, but as I am disposing the ruffle and the neck-band, she complains of my hands being too curious.
A refreshing breeze made me feel rested and clean, and it blew the doubts into deeper reaches of my mind, much the same way it gathered up litter and old leaves, packing them into corners formed by the fairground buildings and shrubbery, not disposing of the trash altogether but at least keeping it out from underfoot.
To help defray construction costs, the Navy is disposing of some of the Indefatigables slated to be replaced by transferring them to us for scrapping and reclamation.
Listed the profits they'd earned by disposing of them, the star systems where they'd been sold, even the names of the brokers through whose hands they'd passed.
If the Sollies are disposing of the Indefatigables, why shouldn't they sell—or even outright give—some of them to somebody who's been their proxy for the last thirty or forty T-years?
If the Sollies are disposing of the Indefatigables, why shouldn't they sell-or even outright give-some of them to somebody who's been their proxy for the last thirty or forty T-years?
Evidently the slave had been thriftily disposing of any dregs left in the cups she collected for washing.
He came to me for help in disposing of the one-armed lad, so as he could take care to be seen in the midst of the party, enjoyin' himself in all innocence whilst accident was befallin' his rival.
There was a puppy belonging to one of the neighbours who sometimes lumbered over and stole James's milk, disposing of it in greedy gulps while its rightful proprietor looked on with piteous helplessness.
For many months we have been gradually disposing of certain assets and smuggling the proceeds out of the country.
Well, the answer to that is that as I should not be disposing of a tangible asset in exchange for it, I should be under no necessity to declare it.
Only, you know, one has to be cautious about disposing of articles obtained in this way.