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Firm; determined; fixed. "A most posed . . . and grave behavior." [Obs.] Urquhart.

Placed in apposition; mutually fitting, as the mandibles of a bird's beak.

lm; sedate; quiet; tranquil; self- possessed. The Mantuan there in sober triumph sate, Composed his posture, and his look sedate. Pope. -- Com*pos"ed*ly (, adv. -- Com*pos"ed*ness, n.

Separated or broken up; -- said of the crest of birds when the feathers are divergent.

Disordered; disturbed; disquieted. -- Dis`com*pos"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`com*pos"ed*ness, n.

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

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

The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.

Disordered; disturbed. [Obs.] Milton. -- In`com*po"sed*ly, adv. [Obs.] -- In`com*pos"ed*ness, n. [Obs.]

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

In a purposed manner; according to purpose or design; purposely. A poem composed purposedly of the Trojan war. Holland.

Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest. Bacon. -- Re*pos"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*pos"ed*ness, n.

Voluntarily taken on one's self; as, self-imposed tasks.

Indisposition; disinclination.

Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. A priori, that is, form these necessities of the mind or forms of thinking, which, though first revealed to us by experience, must yet have preëxisted in order to make experience possi…

Pertaining to the surface or end opposite to the mouth in a radiate animal; -- opposed to actinal. "The aboral or abactinal area." L. Agassiz.

e tribe abets the villany." South. Would not the fool abet the stealth, Who rashly thus exposed his wealth Gay.

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

The supposed origination of living organisms from lifeless matter; such genesis as does not involve the action of living parents; spontaneous generation; -- called also abiogeny, and opposed to biogenesis. I shall call the . . . doctrine that living matter may be produced by not living matter, the hypothesis of abiogen…

A suffix composed of -able and the adverbial suffix -ly; as, favorably.