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Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding. Wealth respondent to payment and contributions. Bacon.

Disposed to rest; indisposed toexercton; sluggish; also, restive. [Obs.] Burton. Where the master is too resty or too rich to say his own prayers. Milton.

Disposed or likely to retrocede; -- said of diseases which go from one part of the body to another, as the gout.

Disposed to revere; impressed with reverence; submissive; humble; respectful; as, reverent disciples. "They . . . prostrate fell before him reverent." Milton.

Able or disposed to revive; reviving. E. Darwin.

Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.

Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More.

Disposed to clothe everything with roseate hues; hence, sentimental. "Rose-pink piety." C. Kingsley.

The state of being disposed to ruminate or ponder; deliberate meditation or reflection. Retiring full of rumination sad. Thomson.

Disposed to arouse, or take part in, violent opposition to lawful authority; turbulent; factious; guilty of sedition; as, seditious citizens. -- Se*di"tious*ly, adv. -- Se*di"tious*ness, n.

Disposed to self-assertion; self-asserting.

Disposed or arranged by an action originating in one's self or in itself. These molecular blocks of salt are self-posited. Tyndall.

Disposed to shirk. [Colloq.]

Affected with disease of any kind; ill; indisposed; not in health. See the Synonym under Illness. Simon's wife's mother lay sick of a fever. Mark i. 30. Behold them that are sick with famine. Jer. xiv. 18.

Somewhat sick; disposed to illness; attended with disease; as, a sickly body. This physic but prolongs thy sickly days. Shak.

Not speaking; indisposed to talk; speechless; mute; taciturn; not loquacious; not talkative. Ulysses, adds he, was the most eloquent and most silent of men. Broome. This new-created world, whereof in hell Fame is not silent. Milton.

With a tendency to use the left hand. Many, in their infancy, are sinistrously disposed, and divers continue all their life left-handed. Sir T. Browne.

Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak.

Of or pertaining to slang; of the nature of slang; disposed to use slang. [Written also slangey.]

Disposed to sleep; sleepy; drowsy. Your sleepish, and more than sleepish, security. Ford.