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Etym: 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 Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in

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Etym: 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 Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser. 2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. The knightly forms of combat to dispose. Dryden. 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. Evelyn. 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. Dryden. Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. Bacon. To dispose of. 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. Locke. 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. T. Burnet. I have disposed of her to a man of business. Tatler. A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. Waller. Syn. -- To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give.

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    One who, or that which, invites.
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    To weigh equally; to esteem alike.
  • CLASSIFIC
    Characterizing a class or classes; relating to classification.
  • EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
    Equality of weight; equipoise.
  • DISPOSEMENT
    Disposal. Goodwin.
  • CLASSIFICATORY
    Pertaining to classification; admitting of classification. "A classificatory system." Earle.
  • PROMPT-BOOK
    The book used by a prompter of a theater.
  • DIRECT CURRENT
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  • ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
    See ASCENDENCY
  • INDUCER
    One who, or that which, induces or incites.
  • INVESTIGATION
    The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
  • CLASSICISM
    A classic idiom or expression; a classicalism. C. Kingsley.
  • DIRECTER
    One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
  • PREVENTATIVE
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
  • EQUIPOTENTIAL
    Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
  • DECORATE
    To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
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    One who, or that which, persuades or influences. "Powerful persuaders." Milton.
  • ADORNINGLY
    By adorning; decoratively.
  • SYSTEMATIZE
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    pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
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    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
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    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
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    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
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    To put in action.
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  • IMPREVENTABLE
    Not preventable; invitable.
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    Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
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