DISPOSITION
\dˌɪspəzˈɪʃən], \dˌɪspəzˈɪʃən], \d_ˌɪ_s_p_ə_z_ˈɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DISPOSITION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"
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a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"
By Princeton University
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your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"
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a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
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The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
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Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
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Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
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Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
By Oddity Software
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The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.
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The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
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Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
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Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
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Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Arrangement: natural tendency: temper: (New Test.) ministry, ministration: (Scots law) a giving over to another- (English) conveyance or assignment.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The act of disposing or state of being disposed; manner in which things or the parts of a complex body are arranged; arrangement; natural fitness or tendency; temper or natural constitution of the mind; temper or frame of mind with reference to some particular object; a giving away or giving over to another; any unilateral writing, by which a person makes over to another a piece of heritable or movable property; the arrangement of the parts of a picture; the arrangement of the whole design of a building.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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Order or manner of arrangement; manner in which things or parts are placed or arranged; order; method; arrangement; temper; natural constitution of the mind; inclination.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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Dispositio, from dis, and ponere, positum, 'to put or set.' A particular condition of the body, which renders it susceptible of altering, suddenly, to a state of health or disease;- of improving, or becoming changed for the worse. The disposition to phthisis pulmonalis is sometimes so strong, owing to original conformation, that the disease will make its appearance, not withstanding every care. See Diathesis.
By Robley Dunglison
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A particular order of arrangement of parts
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A certain mental tendency, especially as manifested in social relations.
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A pronounced tendency. [Lat.]
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. The act of disposing; disposal; regulation;—the state or manner of being disposed; arrangement; order; method;—natural fitness or tendency; bias; propensity;—inherent or acquired frame of mind; temper; inclination;—bestowal or distribution, as of estates or goods; deed of gift.
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