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.
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To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease.
Predisposing causes (Med.), causes which render the body liable to disease; predisponent causes.
Wiktionary
1 inclined. 2 Made susceptible to. v
(en-past of: predispose)
WordNet
adj. made susceptible; "because of conditions in the mine, miners are predisposed to lung disease"
Usage examples of "predisposed".
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.
It is difficult for one not predisposed toward the occult and even strongly prejudiced against it to deny in alleged spiritistic phenomena a challenging residuum which may in the end compel far-reaching modifications in the conclusions both of science and psychology.
John Adams had been predisposed to like Lee, largely out of admiration for Richard Henry Lee.