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   Dispose , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disposed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disposing.] [F. disposer; pref. dis- + poser to place. See Pose.]
   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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   To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
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   The knightly forms of combat to dispose.
   Dryden.
   
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   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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   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.
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   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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   More water . . . than can be disposed of.
   T. Burnet.
   
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   I have disposed of her to a man of business.
   Tatler.
   
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   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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   Dispose , v. i. To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]
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   She had disposed with Cæsar.
   Shak.
   
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   Dispose, n.
   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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   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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