dispose

[dis·pose]

If you dispose of something, you get rid of it. Don't want that sweatshirt with the clown's face on it? Give it away, throw it out, even sell it these are all ways to dispose of that awful shirt.

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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.

Verb
make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this job"

Verb
make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude or belief; "Their language inclines us to believe them"

Verb
throw or cast away; "Put away your worries"

Verb
give, sell, or transfer to another; "She disposed of her parents'' possessions"

v. t.
To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

v. t.
To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

v. t.
To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.

v. t.
To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.

v. t.
To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.

v. i.
To bargain; to make terms.

n.
Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.

n.
Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.

Dispose

Dis*pose" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disposed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disposing.] [F. disposer; pref. dis- + poser to place. See Pose.] 1. 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?

All ranged in order and disposed with grace.

The rest themselves in troops did else dispose.

2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

The knightly forms of combat to dispose.

3. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.

Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor.

4. To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; -- usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the indirect object.

Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future good our past and present woes.

Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

To dispose of. (a) To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use.

Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons.

(b) To exercise finally one's power of control over; to pass over into the control of some one else, as by selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of one's time.

More water . . . than can be disposed of.

I have disposed of her to a man of business.

A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize.

Syn. -- To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give.

Dispose

Dis*pose" , v. i. To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]

She had disposed with C'91sar.

Dispose

Dis*pose", n. 1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [Obs.]

But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires.

2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. [Obs.]

He hath a person, and a smooth dispose To be suspected.

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

To bargain; to make terms.

Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.

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Usage Examples

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

If I agree to dispose of any part of our land to the white people I would feel guilty of taking food away from our children's mouths, and I do not wish to be that mean.

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Other Usage Examples

The first of all commodities to be exchanged is labour, and the freedom of man consists only in the exercise of the right to determine for himself in what manner his labour shall be employed, and how he will dispose of its products.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.