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The act of placing; the state of being placed with something else; disposition in place; arrangement. The choice and collocation of words. Sir W. Jones.

o speak properly, are not colored; in them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this or that color. Sir I. Newton.

A cranial development supposed to indicate a combative disposition.

Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South.

Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility. These [ladies] . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our people. Addison. They strive with their own hearts and keep them…

The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.] If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton. It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak.

A disposition to yield to others; complaisance. A man of few words and of great compliance. Clarendon.

Compliance; disposition to yield to others. Goldsmith.

Orderly adjustment; disposition. [Obs.] Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. Woodward.

Temperament; disposition; character. [Obs.] The condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil. Shak.

Form, as depending on the relative disposition of the parts of a thing' shape; figure. It is the variety of configurations [of the mouth] . . . which gives birth and origin to the several vowels. Harris.

Naturally adapted; suited to the disposition. "Congenial clime." C. J. Fox.

The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.

In accordance with the constitution or natural disposition of the mind or body; naturally; as, he was constitutionally timid. The English were constitutionally humane. Hallam.

Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness.

Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.

The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.

The quality of being conversable; disposition to converse; sociability.

art; a change from the service of the world to the service of God; a change of the ruling disposition of the soul, involving a transformation of the outward life. He oft Frequented their assemblies, . . . and to them preached Conversion and repentance, as to souls In prison under judgments imminent. Milton.…

the science which teaches the constitution of the whole system of worlds, or the figure, disposition, and relation of all its parts.