D — Displaceable to Disposed (Part 6 of 6)

the indirect object.

Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose
To future good our past and present woes.

Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

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.

(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.

I have disposed of her to a man of business.

A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize.

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

Dispose
(Dis*pose") v. i. To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]

She had disposed with Cæsar.

Dispose
(Dis*pose"), n.

1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [Obs.]

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

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

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

Disposed
(Dis*posed") p. a.

1. Inclined; minded.

When he was disposed to pass into Achaia.

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

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