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<blockquote>Absolute lord and <b>disposer</b> of all things. <i>Barrow.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Disposingly</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pos"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a manner to dispose.</def>

<h1>Disposited</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pos"it*ed</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Disposition</er>.]</ety> <def>Disposed.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Glanvill.</i>

<h1>Disposition</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis`po*si"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>disposition</ets>, <ets>dispositio</ets>, fr. <ets>disponere</ets> to dispose; <ets>dis-</ets> + <ets>ponere</ets> to place. See <er>Position</er>, and cf. <er>Dispone</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; <as>as, the <ex>disposition</ex> of a man's property by will</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Who have received the law by the <b>disposition</b> of angels. <i>Acts vii. 53.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The <b>disposition</b> of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; <as>as, the <ex>disposition</ex> of the trees in an orchard; the <ex>disposition</ex> of the several parts of an edifice.</as></def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; <as>as, a <ex>disposition</ex> in plants to grow in a direction upward; a <ex>disposition</ex> in bodies to putrefaction.</as></def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.</def>

<blockquote>How stands your <b>disposition</b> to be married? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.</def> "A man of turbulent <i>disposition</i>." <i>Hallam</i>. "He is of a very melancholy <i>disposition</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>His <b>disposition</b> led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. <i>Strype.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Mood; humor.</def>

<blockquote>As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic <b>disposition</b> on. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Disposal; adjustment; regulation; arrangement; distribution; order; method; adaptation; inclination; propensity; bestowment; alienation; character; temper; mood. -- <er>Disposition</er>, <er>Character</er>, <er>Temper</er>. <i>Disposition</i> is the natural humor of a person, the predominating quality of his character, the constitutional habit of his mind. <i>Character</i> is this disposition influenced by motive, training, and will. <i>Temper</i> is a quality of the fiber of character, and is displayed chiefly when the emotions, especially the passions, are aroused.</syn>

<h1>Dispositional</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis`po*si"tion*al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to disposition.</def>

<h1>Dispositioned</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis`po*si"tioned</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; <as>as, well-<ex>dispositioned</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Dispositive</h1> <Xpage=430>

<hw>Dis*pos"i*tive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>dispositif</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>