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Dis*pose" (?), v. 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.
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Who hath disposed the whole world?
Job xxxiv. 13.
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All ranged in order and disposed with grace.
Pope.
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The rest themselves in troops did else dispose.
Spenser.
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2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
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The knightly forms of combat to dispose.
Dryden.
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3. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
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Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor.
Evelyn.
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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.
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Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose
To future good our past and present woes.
Dryden.
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Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
Bacon.
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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.
[1913 Webster]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.
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T. Burnet.
[1913 Webster]I have disposed of her to a man of business.
Tatler.
[1913 Webster]A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize.
Waller.
Syn. -- To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give.
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Dis*pose" (?), v. i. To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]
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She had disposed with Cæsar.
Shak.
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Dis*pose", n. 1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [Obs.]
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But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires.
Speed.
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2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. [Obs.]
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He hath a person, and a smooth dispose
To be suspected.
Shak.
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