GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

last match results

Found one definition

1.       
   Disposition , n. [F. disposition, dispositio, fr. disponere to dispose; dis- + ponere to place. See Position, and cf. Dispone.]
   The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
   1913 Webster
   Who have received the law by the disposition of angels.
   Acts vii. 53.
   
   1913 Webster
   The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece.
   Dryden.
   
   1913 Webster
   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.
   1913 Webster
   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.
   1913 Webster
   Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
   1913 Webster
   How stands your disposition to be married?
   Shak.
   
   1913 Webster
   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.
   
   1913 Webster
   His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him.
   Strype.
   
   1913 Webster
   Mood; humor.
   1913 Webster
   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.
   1913 Webster