Part 3271

<i>Dr. H. More.</i>

<h1>Disposable</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pos"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Dispose</er>.]</ety> <def>Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use.</def>

<blockquote>The great of this kingdom . . . has easily afforded a <b>disposable</b> surplus. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disposal</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pos"al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Dispose</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; <as>as, the <ex>disposal</ex> of the troops in two lines</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.</def>

<blockquote>The execution leave to high <b>disposal</b>. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; <as>as, a <ex>disposal</ex> of property</as>.</def>

<blockquote>A domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the <b>disposal</b> of my sister Jenny for life. <i>Tatler.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase <i>at</i>, or <i>in</i>, the <i>disposal</i> of.</def>

<blockquote>The sole and absolute <b>disposal</b> of him an his concerns. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Disposition; dispensation; management; conduct; government; distribution; arrangement; regulation; control.</syn>

<h1>Dispose</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pose"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Disposed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Disposing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>disposer</ets>; pref. <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>poser</ets> to place. See <er>Pose</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; <as>as, to <ex>dispose</ex> the ships in the form of a crescent</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Who hath <b>disposed</b> the whole world? <i>Job xxxiv. 13.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>All ranged in order and <b>disposed</b> with grace. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The rest themselves in troops did else <b>dispose</b>. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.</def>

<blockquote>The knightly forms of combat to <b>dispose</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.</def>

<blockquote>Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather <b>dispose</b> among the poor. <i>Evelyn.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by <i>to</i>, sometimes by <i>for</i> before the indirect object.</def>

<blockquote>Endure and conquer; Jove will soon <b>dispose</b> To future good our past and present woes. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Suspicions <b>dispose</b> kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. <i>Bacon.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>To dispose of</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use.</cd>