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Disposure

Disposure \Dis*po"sure\, n. [From Dispose.]

  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.

    Give up My estate to his disposure.
    --Massinger.

  2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. [Obs.]

    In a kind of warlike disposure.
    --Sir H. Wotton.

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disposure

n. (context rare English) disposition.

Usage examples of "disposure".

And contemplating the calicular shafts, and uncous disposure of their extremities, so accommodable unto the office of abstersion, not condemne as wholly improbable the conceit of those who accept it, for the herbe Borith.

For to omit the hioides or throat-bone of animals, the furcula or merry-thought in birds, which supporteth the scapulæ, affording a passage for the winde-pipe and the gullet, the wings of Flyes, and disposure of their legges in their first formation from maggots, and the position of their horns, wings and legges, in their Aurelian cases and swadling clouts: The back of the Cimex Arboreus, found often upon Trees and lesser plants, doth elegantly discover the Burgundian decussation.