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To distribute and put in place; 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.

Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27.

The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. [R.]

Disposal. [Obs.] Goodwin.

One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow.

To bestow beforehand. [R.] King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.

To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat. Shak. It made him rather indisposed than sick. Walton.

The condition or quality of being indisposed. [R.] Bp. Hall.

To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship.

To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.

To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange. A. Baxter.

Indisposition; disinclination.

Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.

Resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit; assentive; as, an acquiescent policy.

Able or disposed to make acquisitions; acquiring; as, an acquisitive person or disposition.

Not cyclic; not disposed in cycles or whorls; as: (a) (Bot.)

Skillful arrangement in aid; assistance. It was, no doubt, disposed with all the adjutancy of definition and division. Burke.

To dispose or incline. Men whom they thought best affected to religion and their country's liberty. Milton.

Inclined; disposed; attached. How stand you affected his wish Shak.

Disposed; inclined. [Obs.] Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.