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Webster 1913 Edition

Dispose

Dis-pose′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Disposed
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Disposing
.]
[F.
disposer
; pref.
dis-
+
poser
to place. See
Pose
.]
1.
To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order;
as, to
dispose
the ships in the form of a crescent
.
Who hath
disposed
the whole world?
Job xxxiv. 13.
All ranged in order and
disposed
with grace.
Pope.
The rest themselves in troops did else
dispose
.
Spenser.
2.
To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
The knightly forms of combat to
dispose
.
Dryden.
3.
To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather
dispose
among the poor.
Evelyn.
4.
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 to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.
Endure and conquer; Jove will soon
dispose

To future good our past and present woes.
Dryden.
Suspicions
dispose
kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
Bacon.
To dispose of
.
(a)
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.

(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.
Syn. – To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give.

Dis-pose′

,
Verb.
I.
To bargain; to make terms.
[Obs.]
She had
disposed
with Cæsar.
Shakespeare

Dis-pose′

,
Noun.
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.
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition

Dispose

DISPOSE

,
Verb.
T.
dispoze. [L.]
1.
To set; to place or distribute; to arrange; used with reference to order. The ships were disposed in the form of a crescent. The general disposed his troops in three lines. The trees are disposed in the form of a quincunx.
2.
To regulate; to adjust; to set in right order. Job 34 and 37.
The knightly forms of combat to dispose.
3.
To apply to a particular purpose; to give; to place; to bestow; as, you have disposed much in works of public piety. In this sense, to dispose of is more generally used.
4.
To set, place or turn to a particular end or consequence.
Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose to future good our past and present woes.
5.
To adapt; to form for any purpose.
Then must thou thee dispose another way.
6.
To set the mind in a particular frame; to incline. Avarice disposes men to fraud and oppression.
Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
He was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts 18. 1 Corinthians 10:27.
To dispose of,
1.
To part with; to alienate; as, the man has disposed of his house, and removed.
2.
To part with to another; to put into anothers hand or power; to bestow; as, the father has disposed of his daughter to a man of great worth.
3.
To give away or transfer by authority.
A rural judge disposed of beautys prize.
4.
To direct the course of a thing. Proverbs 16.
5.
To place in any condition; as, how will you dispose of your son?
6.
To direct what to do or what course to pursue; as, they know not how to dispose of themselves.
7.
To use or employ; as, they know not how to dispose of their time.
8.
To put away. The stream supplies more water than can be disposed of.

DISPOSE

,
Verb.
I.
To bargain; to make terms.

DISPOSE

,
Noun.
1.
Disposal; power of disposing; management.
2.
Dispensation; act of government.
3.
Disposition; cast of behavior.
4.
Disposition; cast of mind; inclination.

Definition 2024

dispose

dispose

See also: disposé

English

Verb

dispose ‎(third-person singular simple present disposes, present participle disposing, simple past and past participle disposed)

  1. (intransitive, used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something.
    I dispose of my trash in the garbage can.‎
  2. To distribute and put in place.
    • 1600, William Shakespeare, Henry V, act 4, scene III
      Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
    • 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, chapter 6
      Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.
    • 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, 1992 Bantam edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 47:
      I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in […] .
  3. To deal out; to assign to a use.
    • John Evelyn (1620-1706)
      what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor
  4. To incline.
    In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution.‎ (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)
    • John Dryden (1631-1700)
      Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.
    • Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
      Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
    • 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapter II:
      At twilight in the summer […] the mice come out. They […] eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly […] on the floor.
  5. (obsolete) To bargain; to make terms.
  6. (obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
    • John Dryden (1631-1700)
      the knightly forms of combat to dispose

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French

Verb

dispose

  1. first-person singular present indicative of disposer
  2. third-person singular present indicative of disposer
  3. first-person singular present subjunctive of disposer
  4. third-person singular present subjunctive of disposer
  5. second-person singular imperative of disposer

Italian

Verb

dispose

  1. third-person singular past historic of disporre

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Etymology

From Old French disposer.

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