Disposable Disˇpos"aˇble adjective [ From Dispose .] Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use.

The great of this kingdom . . . has easily afforded a disposable surplus.

Burke.

Disposal Disˇpos"al noun [ From Dispose .] 1. The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

2. Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.

The execution leave to high disposal .

Milton.

3. 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, a disposal of property.

A domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life.

Tatler.

4. Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at , or in , the disposal of.

The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns.

South.

Syn. -- Disposition; dispensation; management; conduct; government; distribution; arrangement; regulation; control.

Dispose Disˇpose" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disposed ; present participle & verbal noun Disposing .] [ French disposer ; prefix 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.

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.

Dispose Disˇpose" intransitive verb To bargain; to make terms. [ Obsolete]

She had disposed with Cćsar.

Shak.

Dispose Disˇpose" noun 1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [ Obsolete]

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

Speed.

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

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

Shak.

Disposed Disˇposed" p. adjective 1. Inclined; minded.

When he was disposed to pass into Achaia.

Acts xviii. 27.

2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. [ Obsolete] Beau. & Fl.

Well disposed , in good condition; in good health. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Disposedness Disˇpos"edˇness noun The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. [ R.]

Disposement Disˇpose"ment noun Disposal. [ Obsolete] Goodwin.

Disposer Disˇpos"er noun One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.

Absolute lord and disposer of all things.

Barrow.

Disposingly Disˇpos"ingˇly adverb In a manner to dispose.

Disposited Disˇpos"itˇed adjective [ See Disposition .] Disposed. [ Obsolete] Glanvill.

Disposition Dis`poˇsi"tion noun [ French disposition , dispositio , from disponere to dispose; dis- + ponere to place. See Position , and confer Dispone .] 1. The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels.

Acts vii. 53.

The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece.

Dryden.

2. The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

3. Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

4. Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.

How stands your disposition to be married?

Shak.

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

His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him.

Strype.

6. Mood; humor.

As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on.

Shak.

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

Dispositional Dis`poˇsi"tionˇal adjective Pertaining to disposition.

Dispositioned Dis`poˇsi"tioned adjective Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well- dispositioned .

Dispositive Disˇpos"iˇtive adjective [ Confer French dispositif .] 1. Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. [ Obsolete]

His dispositive wisdom and power.

Bates.

2. Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. [ Obsolete] " Dispositive holiness." Jer. Taylor.

Dispositively Disˇpos"iˇtiveˇly adverb In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once.

Boyle.

Dispositor Disˇpos"itˇor noun [ Latin See Disposition .] 1. A disposer.

2. (Astrol.) The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [ Obsolete] Crabb.

Dispossess Dis`posˇsess" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dispossessed ; present participle & verbal noun Dispossessing .] [ Prefix dis- + possess : confer French déposséder .] To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.

Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain.

Goldsmith.

Dispossession Dis`posˇses"sion noun [ Confer French dépossession .] 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.

2. (Law) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster .

Dispossessor Dis`posˇsess"or noun One who dispossesses. Cowley.

Dispost Disˇpost" transitive verb To eject from a post; to displace. [ R.] Davies (Holy Roode).

Disposure Disˇpo"sure noun [ From Dispose .] 1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.

Give up
My estate to his disposure .

Massinger.

2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. [ Obsolete]

In a kind of warlike disposure .

Sir H. Wotton.

Dispraisable Disˇprais"aˇble adjective Blamable. [ R.]

Dispraise Disˇpraise" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Dispraised ; present participle & verbal noun Dispraising .] [ Middle English dispreisen , Old French desprisier , despreisier , French dépriser ; prefix des- (L. dis- ) + prisier , French priser , to prize, praise. See Praise , and confer Disprize , Depreciate .] To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to disparage; to blame.

Dispraising the power of his adversaries.

Chaucer.

I dispraised him before the wicked, that the wicked might not fall in love with him.

Shak.

Dispraise Disˇpraise" noun [ Confer Old French despris . See Dispraise , transitive verb ] The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden.

In praise and in dispraise the same.

Tennyson.

Dispraiser Disˇprais"er noun One who blames or dispraises.

Dispraisingly Disˇpraisingˇly adverb By way of dispraise.

Dispread Disˇpread" transitive verb [ Prefix dis- + spread .] To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.

Dispread Disˇpread" intransitive verb To extend or expand itself. [ R.]

While tyrant Heat, dispreading through the sky.

Thomson.

Dispreader Disˇpread"er noun One who spreads abroad.

Dispreaders both of vice and error.

Milton.

Disprejudice Disˇprej"uˇdice transitive verb To free from prejudice. [ Obsolete] W. Montagu.

Disprepare Dis`preˇpare" transitive verb To render unprepared. [ Obsolete] Hobbes.

Disprince Disˇprince" transitive verb To make unlike a prince. [ R.]

For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers, . . .
And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel.

Tennyson.

Disprison Disˇpris"on transitive verb To let loose from prison, to set at liberty. [ R.] Bulwer.

Disprivilege Disˇpriv"iˇlege transitive verb To deprive of a privilege or privileges. [ R.]

Disprize Disˇprize" transitive verb [ Confer Dispraise .] To depreciate. [ R.] Cotton (Ode to Lydia).

Disprofess Dis`proˇfess" transitive verb To renounce the profession or pursuit of.

His arms, which he had vowed to disprofess .

Spenser.

Disprofit Disˇprof"it noun Loss; damage. Foxe.

Disprofit Disˇprof"it intransitive verb & i. To be, or to cause to be, without profit or benefit. [ Obsolete or Archaic] Bale.

Disprofitable Disˇprof"itˇaˇble adjective Unprofitable. [ Obsolete]

Disproof Disˇproof" noun [ Prefix dis- + proof . Confer Disprove .] A proving to be false or erroneous; confutation; refutation; as, to offer evidence in disproof of a statement.

I need not offer anything farther in support of one, or in disproof of the other.

Rogers.

Disproperty Disˇprop"erˇty transitive verb To cause to be no longer property; to dispossess of. [ R.] Shak.

Disproportion Dis`proˇpor"tion noun [ Prefix dis- + proportion : confer French disproportion .] 1. Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.

2. Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.

Disproportion Dis`proˇpor"tion transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disproportioned ; present participle & verbal noun Disproportioning .] To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.

To shape my legs of an unequal size;
To disproportion me in every part.

Shak.

A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory.

Prescott.

Disproportionable Dis`proˇpor"tionˇaˇble adjective Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness , noun Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly , adverb

Disproportional Dis`proˇpor"tionˇal adjective Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding.

Disproportionality Dis`proˇpor`tionˇal"iˇty noun The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.

Disproportionally Dis`proˇpor"tionˇalˇly adverb In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.

Disproportionate Dis`proˇpor"tionˇate adjective Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate ; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means. - - Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ly , adverb -- Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ness , noun

Dispropriate Disˇpro"priˇate transitive verb [ Latin dis- + propriare to appropriate, from proprius one's own, proper.] To cancel the appropriation of; to disappropriate. [ R.]

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