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in which anything is placed; attitude; condition; as, a firm, an inclined, or an upright position. We have different prospects of the same thing, according to our different positions to it. Locke.

Of or pertaining to position. Ascribing unto plants positional operations. Sir T. Browne.

The placing of a before another, which, by ordinary rules, ought to follow it.

The act of adding; application; accretion. It grows . . . by the apposition of new matter. Arbuthnot.

Pertaining to apposition; put in apposition syntactically. Ellicott.

The act of placing in a circle, or round about, or the state of being so placed. Evelyn.

mbination of the parts of any literary work or discourse, or of a work of art; as, the composition of a poem or a piece of music. "The constant habit of elaborate composition." Macaulay.

A placing over against; opposite position. [Obs.] F. Potter.

oval or alteration of some of the ingredients of a compound; disintegration; as, the decomposition of wood, rocks, etc.

ct of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation. The deposition of rough sand and rolled pebbles. H. Miller.

Inconsistency; discordance. [Obs.] Donne.

sing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. Dryden.…

Pertaining to disposition.

Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well- dispositioned.

a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary. You know the law; your exposition Hath been most sound. Shak.

of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like. "From imposition of strict laws." Milton. Made more solemn by the imposition of hands. Hammond.

The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury.

A situation or position beneath. Kane.

The act of interposing, or the state of being interposed; a being, placing, or coming between; mediation.

A placing or being placed in nearness or contiguity, or side by side; as, a juxtaposition of words. Parts that are united by a a mere juxtaposition. Glanvill. Juxtaposition is a very unsafe criterion of continuity. Hare.