Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DIS-POS'ED, pp.

Set in order; arranged; placed; adjusted; applied; bestowed; inclined.

DIS-POS'ER, n.

1. One who disposes; a distributor; a bestower; as, a disposer of gifts.
2. A director; a regulator. The Supreme Being is the rightful disposer of all events, and of all creatures.
3. 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.]

1. The act of disposing, or state of being disposed.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Temper or natural constitution of the mind; as, an amiable or an irritable disposition.
5. 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.
6. 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.

DIS-PO-SI'TION-AL, a.

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.]

1. Disposal; the power of disposing; management; direction. – Sandys. [The use of this word is superseded by that of disposal.]
2. State; posture; disposition. [Not used.] – Wotton.

DIS-PRAISE', n. [dispra'ze. dis and praise.]

1. Blame; censure. Be cautious not to speak in dispraise of a competitor.
2. 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.