Webster's Dictionary 1913

4510

Disposedness

Dis‐pos″ed‐ness (?), n. The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.

4511

Disposement

Dis‐pose″ment (?), n. Disposal. Goodwin.

4512

Disposer

Dis‐pos″er (?), n. One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow.

4513

Disposingly

Dis‐pos″ing‐ly, adv. In a manner to dispose.

4514

Disposited

Dis‐pos″it‐ed (?), a. [See Disposition.] Disposed. Glanvill.

4515

Disposition

Dis′po‐si″tion (?), n. [F. disposition, dispositio, fr. disponere to dispose; dis- + ponere to place. See Position, and cf. Dispone.] 1. The act of disposing, arranging, orderin...

4516

Dispositional

Dis′po‐si″tion‐al (?), a. Pertaining to disposition.

4517

Dispositioned

Dis′po‐si″tioned (?), a. Having (such) a disposition; — used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned.

4518

Dispositive

Dis‐pos″i‐tive (?), a. [Cf. F. dispositif.] 1. Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive.His dispositive wisdom and power. Bates.2. Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency...

4519

Dispositively

Dis‐pos″i‐tive‐ly, adv. In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. Sir T. Browne.Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally,... break all the ...

4520

Dispositor

Dis‐pos″it‐or (?), n. [L. See Disposition.] 1. A disposer.2. (Astrol.) The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb.

4521

Dispossess

Dis′pos‐sess″ (?; see Possess), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Dispossessed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Dispossessing.] [Pref. dis- + possess: cf. F. déposséder.] To put out of possession; to depri...

4522

Dispossession

Dis′pos‐ses″sion (?), n. [Cf. F. dépossession.] 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.2. (Law) The putting out of possession, wrongf...

4523

Dispossessor

Dis′pos‐sess″or (?), n. One who dispossesses. Cowley.

4524

Dispost

Dis‐post″ (?), v. t. To eject from a post; to displace. Davies (Holy Roode).

4525

Disposure

Dis‐po″sure (?), n. [From Dispose.] 1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.Give upMy estate to his disposure. Massinger.2. Disposition; arrangement; p...

4526

Dispraisable

Dis‐prais″a‐ble (?), a. Blamable.

4527

Dispraise

Dis‐praise″ (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Dispraised (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Dispraising.] [OE. dispreisen, OF. desprisier, despreisier, F. dépriser; pref. des- (L. dis-) + prisier, F. pr...

4528

Dispraise (2)

Dis‐praise″, n. [Cf. OF. despris. See Dispraise, v. t.] The act of dispraising; detraction; blame censure; reproach; disparagement. Dryden.In praise and in dispraise the same. T...

4529

Dispraiser

Dis‐prais″er (?), n. One who blames or dispraises.

4530

Dispraisingly

Dis‐praising‐ly, adv. By way of dispraise.

4531

Dispread

Dis‐pread″ (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + spread.] To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.

4532

Dispread (2)

Dis‐pread″, v. i. To extend or expand itself.While tyrant Heat, dispreading through the sky. Thomson.

4533

Dispreader

Dis‐pread″er (?), n. One who spreads abroad.Dispreaders both of vice and error. Milton.

4534

Disprejudice

Dis‐prej″u‐dice (?), v. t. To free from prejudice. W. Montagu.

4535

Disprepare

Dis′pre‐pare″ (?), v. t. To render unprepared. Hobbes.

4536

Disprince

Dis‐prince″ (?), v. t. To make unlike a prince.For I was drench'd with ooze, and torn with briers,...And, all one rag, disprinced from head to heel. Tennyson.