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Well disposed

Disposed \Dis*posed"\, p. a.

  1. Inclined; minded.

    When he was disposed to pass into Achaia.
    --Acts xviii. 27.

  2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. [Obs.]
    --Beau. & Fl.

    Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

Usage examples of "well disposed".

I confess you were well disposed toward my father, and you ought to confess you were well paid for it.

It determined the well disposed among them to frown upon every thing of the kind hereafter, and the ill-disposed returned to order from fear if not from better motives.

However well disposed a person may be, why you see we leave off after a time seeing persons who are in sorrow, they make one melancholy.

But it was not immediately that an opportunity of doing so could be commanded, though Lucy was as well disposed as herself to take advantage of any that occurred.