01 n. 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 act of disposing, 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.
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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.“How stands your disposition to be married?” — Shak.
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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.“His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him.” — Strype.
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Mood; humor.“As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on.” — Shak.
Syn.
Disposal; adjustment; regulation; arrangement; distribution; order; method; adaptation; inclination; propensity; bestowment; alienation; character; temper; mood. -- Disposition, Character, Temper. Disposition is the natural humor of a person, the predominating quality of his character, the constitutional habit of his mind. Character is this disposition influenced by motive, training, and will. Temper is a quality of the fiber of character, and is displayed chiefly when the emotions, especially the passions, are aroused.