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Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons.

Locke.

(b) 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.

Dis*pose" (?), v. i. To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]

She had disposed with Cæsar.

Shak.

Dis*pose", n. 1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [Obs.]

But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires.

Speed.

2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. [Obs.]

He hath a person, and a smooth dispose To be suspected.

Shak.

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.

Dis*pos"ed*ness (?), n. The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. [R.]

Dis*pose"ment (?), n. Disposal. [Obs.] Goodwin.

Dis*pos"er (?), n. One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.

Absolute lord and disposer of all things.