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The disposition to revenge; a malignant wishing of evil to one who has done us an injury. Revenge now goes To lay a complot to betray thy foes. Shak. The indulgence of revenge tends to make men more savage and cruel. Kames.

und respect and esteem mingled with fear and affection, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. Chaucer. Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. Coleridge. When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it…

Having a right heart or disposition. -- Right"-heart`ed*ness, n.

y of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species. A strong and obvious disposition to risibility. Sir W. Scott.

A dreamy, imaginative habit of mind; a disposition to ignore what is real; as, a girl full of romance.

To hinder; to cross; to thwart. [R.] 'T is the duke's pleasure, Whose disposition, all the world well knows, Will not be rubbed nor stopped. Shak. To rub down. (a) To clean by rubbing; to comb or curry; as, to down a horse. (b) To reduce or remove by rubbing; as, to rub down the rough points. -- To rub off, to clean a…

The evil and malicious disposition of Satan; a diabolical sprit. [R.]

le of, or admitting of, being saved. In the person prayed for there ought to be the great disposition of being in a savable condition. Jer. Taylor.

With a disposition to impute immorality or wrong. Shun their fault, who, scandalously nice, Will needs mistake an author into vice. Pope.

Assemblage of scenes; the scenes of a play; the disposition and arrangement of the scenes in which the action of a play, poem, etc., is laid; representation of place of action or occurence.

Particular form or disposition of a thing; an exhibition in outline of any systematic arrangement. [R.]

General state or disposition of the body or mind, or of one thing with regard to other things; habitude. [Obs.] Norris.

Tending to secrete, or to keep secret or private; as, a secretive disposition.

The quality of being secretive; disposition or tendency to conceal.

A signal telegraph; an apparatus for giving signals by the disposition of lanterns, flags, oscillating arms, etc.

state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition prompting to action or expression. The word sentiment, agreeably to the use made of it by our best English writers, expresses, in my own opinion very happily, those complex determinations of the mind which result from…

The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.

Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay.

A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it.

One of bad disposition; a fiend. [Colloq.]