Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-DIS-PO-SI'TION
IN-DIS-POS'INGIN-DIS'PU-TA-BLE
IN-DIS-PO-SI'TION, n. [Fr.; in and disposition.]
- Disinclination; aversion; unwillingness; dislike; as, the indisposition of men to submit to severe discipline; an indisposition to abandon vicious practices. A general indisposition toward believing. Atterbury.
- Slight disorder of the healthy functions of the body; tendency to disease. Indisposition is a slight defect of healthy action in bodily functions, rather than settled or marked disease.
- Want of tendency or natural appetency or affinity; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine.
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