Crossword clues for indisposition
indisposition
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indisposition \In*dis`po*si"tion\, n. [Cf. F. indisposition.]
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The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine.
A general indisposition towards believing.
--Atterbury. -
A slight disorder or illness.
Rather as an indisposition in health than as any set sickness.
--Hayward.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., "unfavorable influence" (in astrology); also in Middle English, "ill health, disorder of the mind or body; unfavorable disposition, hostility; inclination to evil; wickedness; public disorder, lawlessness," from in- (1) "not, opposite of" + disposition.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A mild illness, the state of being indisposed. 2 A state of not being disposed to do something; disinclination; unwillingness. 3 A bad mood or disposition.
WordNet
n. a slight illness
a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination]
Usage examples of "indisposition".
But, in a community where nearly everyone knows a little about boats, I believe that Abernethy is remarkable for an indisposition to venture far from shore.
Moreover, Madame, learning of her indisposition, not only gave up her own featherbed to her, but made her a tisane, and showed herself to be in general so full of sympathy that the ill-used beauty, in spite of aching head and limbs, began to feel very much more cheerful, and even expressed a desire to have her child brought to kiss her before he went to bed.
He approached them, with a hope that Adela had not been obliged to leave through indisposition.
Perhaps the reader may smile at the mention of such trivial indispositions, but in more sensitive natures death itself follows in some cases from no more serious cause.
Stoker was alone m the pulpit, the Rev. Doctor Pemberton having been detained by slight indisposition.
If you want a doctor, tell him to keep his counsel, for people at Soleure know of my little indisposition, and they might say you caught it from me, and this would do us both harm.
It is now indignantly demanded, who took the responsibility of concealing the indisposition of those Royal children from their Royal and illustrious parents, and of bringing them down from their beds, disguised, expressly to confound the London Correspondent of the Tattlesnivel Bleater?
Her Mama, quite as sensible as herself of the ridiculous nature of her indisposition, had announced her to be quite worn down by the exigencies of fashionable life, and had whisked her off to Kent in a post-chaise-and-four, where, in a comfortable mansion suitably retired from the haunts of men, she was able not only to recover her health and looks in seclusion, but also to communicate her complaint to two abigails and a youthful pageboy.
Thus it was that Sir John was still bluff and hale as he stood on his terrace puffing a cigar, his only indisposition was the gouty foot thrust into a carpet slipper.
Adeline endeavoured to smile, but the languor of grief was now heightened by indisposition.
But worse than that for our purposes was his case-book showing long-drawn-out histories of general bilious indisposition, melancholy, taedium vitae sometimes reaching mere despair, extreme irascibility: all this with no known agent, though autopsy showed an enlarged quadrate lobe studded with yellow nodules the size of a pea.