Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: DIS-POS'ED – DIS-PRIZE'
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DIS-POS'ED, pp.
Set in order; arranged; placed; adjusted; applied; bestowed; inclined.
DIS-POS'ER, n.
- One who disposes; a distributor; a bestower; as, a disposer of gifts.
- A director; a regulator. The Supreme Being is the rightful disposer of all events, and of all creatures.
- That which disposes. – Prior.
DIS-POS'ING, n.
The act of arranging; regulation; direction. – Prov. xvi. 33.
DIS-POS'ING, ppr.
Setting in order; arranging; distributing; bestowing; regulating; adjusting; governing.
DIS-PO-SI'TION, n. [L. dispositio.]
- The act of disposing, or state of being disposed.
- Manner in which things or the parts of a complex body are placed or arranged; order; method; distribution; arrangement. We speak of the disposition of the infantry and cavalry of an army; the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice, of the parts of a discourse, or of the figures in painting.
- Natural fitness or tendency. The refrangibility of the rays of light is their disposition to be refracted. So we say, disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
- Temper or natural constitution of the mind; as, an amiable or an irritable disposition.
- Inclination; propensity; the temper or frame of mind, as directed to particular objects. We speak of the disposition of a person to undertake a particular work; the dispositions of men toward each other; a disposition friendly to any design.
- Disposal; alienation; distribution; a giving away or giving over to another; as, he has made disposition of his effects; he has satisfied his friends by the judicious disposition of his property.
Pertaining to disposition.
DIS-POS'I-TIVE, a.
That implies disposal. [Not used.] – Ayliffe.
DIS-POS'I-TIVE-LY, adv.
In a dispositive manner; distributively. [Not used.] – Brown.
DIS-POS'I-TOR, n.
A disposer; in astrology, the planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [Not used.]
DIS-POS-SESS', v.t. [dis and possess.]
To put out of possession, by any means; to deprive of the actual occupancy of a thing, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize. Ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein. – Numb. xxxiii. Usually followed by of, before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown.
DIS-POS-SESS'ED, pp.
Deprived of possession or occupancy.
DIS-POS-SESS'ING, ppr.
Depriving of possession; disseizing.
DIS-POS-SESS'ION, n.
The act of putting out of possession. – Hall.
DIS-PO'SURE, n. [dispo'zhur. See Dispose.]
- Disposal; the power of disposing; management; direction. – Sandys. [The use of this word is superseded by that of disposal.]
- State; posture; disposition. [Not used.] – Wotton.
DIS-PRAISE', n. [dispra'ze. dis and praise.]
- Blame; censure. Be cautious not to speak in dispraise of a competitor.
- Reproach; dishonor. The general has seen Moors with as bad faces; no dispraise to Bertran's. – Dryden.
DIS-PRAISE', v.t.
To blame; to censure; to mention with disapprobation, or some degree of reproach. I dispraised him before the wicked. – Shak.
DIS-PRAIS'ED, pp.
Blamed; censured.
DIS-PRAIS'ER, n.
One who blames or dispraises.
DIS-PRAIS'ING, ppr.
Blaming; censuring.
DIS-PRAIS'ING-LY, adv.
By way of dispraise; with blame or some degree of reproach.
DIS-PREAD', v.i.
To expand or be extended. – Thomson.
DIS-PREAD', v.t. [dispred'. dis and spread. See Spread.]
To spread in different ways; to extend or flow in different directions. – Spenser. Pope.
DIS-PREAD'ER, n.
A publisher; a divulger. – Milton.
DIS-PRIS'ON, v.t.
To let loose from prison; to set at liberty. – Bulwer.
DIS-PRIZE', v.t.
To undervalue. – Cotton.