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In moral qualities; in disposition and character; as, one who physically and morally endures hardships.

The disposition to favor the native inhabitants of a country, in preference to immigrants from foreign countries.

rowth of animals or plants; the natural motion of a gravitating body; natural strength or disposition; the natural heat of the body; natural color. With strong natural sense, and rare force of will. Macaulay.

Having (such) a nature, temper, or disposition; disposed; -- used in composition; as, good-natured, ill-natured, etc.

The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

To destroy the peculiar or opposite dispositions of; to reduce to a state of indifference inefficience; to counteract; as, to neutralize parties in government; to neutralize efforts, opposition, etc. Counter citations that neutralize each other. E. Everett.

One of a class of water spirits, commonly described as of a mischievous disposition. The treacherous nixes who entice men to a watery death. Tylor.

Colored rings formed upon a metal plate by the electrolytic disposition of copper, lead peroxide, etc. They may be produced by touching with a pointed zinc rod a silver plate on which is a solution of copper sulphate.

Inclination; intention; disposition; as, I have a notion to do it. [Colloq.]

ty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy. You do not well in obstinacy To cavil in the course of this contract. Shak. To shelter their ignorance, or obstinacy, under the obscurity of their terms. Locke.…

A disposition to take the most hopeful view; -- opposed to pessimism.

The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing.

Disposition; distribution; management. South.

Disposition; arrangement; order. [R.] Angle of ordination (Geom.), the angle between the axes of coördinates.

The disposition of the parts of any composition with regard to one another and the whole. Their dramatic ordonnance of the parts. Coleridge.

Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. "Overthwart humor." Clarendon.

The morbid phenomena produced by dwelling among marshes; malarial disease or disposition.

Of or pertaining to a father; fatherly; showing the disposition of a father; guiding or instructing as a father; as, paternal care. "Under paternal rule." Milton.

One who has gift and disposition of a benefice. [Eng.]

The office, disposition, or act of a pedant; pedantry. [Obs.]