Word Meanings - FOREDISPOSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bestow beforehand. King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.

Related words: (words related to FOREDISPOSE)

• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• BISHOPDOM
  Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• MEATH; MEATHE
  A sweet liquor; mead. Chaucer. Milton.
• JAMESTOWN WEED
  The poisonous thorn apple or stramonium , a rank weed early noticed at Jamestown, Virginia. See Datura. Note: This name is often corrupted into jimson, jimpson, and gympsum.
• BISHOPLY
  Bishoplike; episcopal.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• FOREDISPOSE
  To bestow beforehand. King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.
• BISHOP-STOOL
  A bishop's seat or see.
• BISHOP'S-WEED
  An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed .
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• BISHOPLIKE
  Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.
• PLACENTA
  The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi
• BISHOP'S LENGTH
  A canvas for a portrait measuring 58 by 94 inches. The half bishop measures 45 of 56.
• JAMESONITE
  A steel-gray mineral, of metallic luster, commonly fibrous massive. It is a sulphide of antimony and lead, with a little iron.
• PLACEMAN
  One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott.
• JAMES'S POWDER
  Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.
• BISHOP
  L. episcopus overseer, superintendent, bishop, fr. Gr. , over + inspector, fr. root of , , to look to, perh. akin to L. specere to 1. A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director. Ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the
• COMPROMISE
  promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
• UNPROMISE
  To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• FOREPROMISED
  Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• APLACENTAL
  Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.