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

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

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

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.

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

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

Disposed. [Archaic] Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10.

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

To be affected with pain or uneasiness of any sort; to be ill or indisposed or in trouble. When he ails ever so little . . . he is so peevish. Richardson.

A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

Inclined; disposed customarily; given; ready; -- used of persons. Apter to give than thou wit be to ask. Beau. & Fl. That lofty pity with which prosperous folk are apt to remember their grandfathers. F. Harrison.

Resembling a tree; becoming woody in stalk; dendritic; having crystallizations disposed like the branches and twigs of a tree. "Arborescent hollyhocks." Evelyn.

lly a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.

The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic classification; as, arrangement of one's dress; the Linnæan arrangement of plants.

Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel. Dryden.