Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Disposal; the power of disposing; control; direction; management.
- noun Posture; disposition; state.
- noun Distribution; allotment.
- noun A state of orderly arrangement.
- noun Natural disposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.
- noun obsolete Disposition; arrangement; position; posture.
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- noun rare
Disposition .
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Examples
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Yet for the sake of indulging themselves in the beautiful lies and gentlemanly disposure of these ‘hosts’, which they claim to be absent in most Japanese men, they were willing to pay for that ‘temporary love’ they claimed money could buy.
babycartercl Diary Entry babycartercl 2008
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Seeing, therefore, you have totally referred unto my discretion the disposure of you in marriage, I am fully of an opinion that I shall provide sufficiently well for you in that point.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For proof whereof the wise and pacific Solomon could no better represent the unspeakable perfection of the divine wisdom, than by comparing it to the due disposure and ranking of an army in battle array, well provided and ordered.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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For proof whereof the wise and pacific Solomon could no better represent the unspeakable perfection of the divine wisdom, than by comparing it to the due disposure and ranking of an army in battle array, well provided and ordered.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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That good pope who was the first institutor of fasting understood this well enough; for he ordained that our fast should reach but to the hour of noon; all the remainder of that day was at our disposure, freely to eat and feed at any time thereof.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It is therefore expedient, seeing you are resolved for once to take a trial of the state of marriage, that, with shut eyes, bowing your head, and kissing the ground, you put the business to a venture, and give it a fair hazard, in recommending the success of the residue to the disposure of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Seeing, therefore, you have totally referred unto my discretion the disposure of you in marriage, I am fully of an opinion that I shall provide sufficiently well for you in that point.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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That good pope who was the first institutor of fasting understood this well enough; for he ordained that our fast should reach but to the hour of noon; all the remainder of that day was at our disposure, freely to eat and feed at any time thereof.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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It is therefore expedient, seeing you are resolved for once to take a trial of the state of marriage, that, with shut eyes, bowing your head, and kissing the ground, you put the business to a venture, and give it a fair hazard, in recommending the success of the residue to the disposure of
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Add hereunto the strange and wonderful quiet disposure of the magistracy of this city into the hand of persons prudent, diligent, and watchful, whom we have reason to pray for, and bless God for.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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