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Not disposed to affection; unfriendly; disaffected. [R.] Blount.

Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.

and abdomen separated by a deep constriction. Disjunct tetrachords (Mus.), tetrachords so disposed to each other that the gravest note of the upper is one note higher than the acutest note of the other.

Not obliging; not disposed to do a favor; unaccommodating; as, a disobliging person or act.

To refuse to consider as pope; to depose from the popedom. One whom they disposed. Tennyson.

to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser.

Disposed. [Obs.] Glanvill.

The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.

Disposed to dispute; inclined to cavil or to reason in opposition; as, a disputative temper. I. Watts.

Disposed to discord; contentious; dissentious. [R.] Ascham. -- Dis*sen"sious*ly, adv. Chapman.

Disposed in two vertical rows; two-ranked.

Disposed to be taught; tractable; easily managed; as, a docile child. The elephant is at once docible and docile. C. J. Smith.

Disposed to pour out freely; prodigal. [Obs.] Young.

Disposed to embrace; fond of caressing. [R.] Thackeray.

Of the same interest or concern; indifferent. They who are not disposed to receive them may let them alone or reject them; it is equal to me. Cheyne.

Having evil dispositions or intentions; disposed to mischief or sin; malicious; malignant; wicked. -- E"vil-mind`ed*ness, n.

Disposed or apt to take exceptions, or to object; captious. [Obs.] At least effectually silence the doubtful and exceptious. South. -- Ex*cep"tious*ness, n. [Obs.] Barrow.

Well-disposed. "A fair-natured prince." Ford.

Full of faith, or having faith; disposed to believe, especially in the declarations and promises of God. You are not faithful, sir. B. Jonson.

Disposed to fly away; flighty; unrestrained; light and free; -- used of both persons and things. -- n.