DISPOSE, v.t. dispoze. [L.]

1. Disposal; power of disposing; management. [Obs.] – Shak.
2. Dispensation; act of government. [Obs.] – Milton.
3. Disposition; cast of behavior. [Obs.] – Shak.
4. Disposition; cast of mind; inclination. [Obs.] – Shak.

To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.] – Shak.

1. To set; to place or distribute; to arrange; used with reference to order. The ships were disposed in the form of a crescent. The general disposed his troops in three lines. The trees are disposed in the form of a quincunx.
2. To regulate; to adjust; to set in right order. – Job xxxiv. and xxxvii. The knightly forms of combat to dispose. – Dryden.
3. To apply to a particular purpose; to give; to place; to bestow; as, you have disposed much in works of public piety. In this sense, to dispose of is more generally used.
4. To set, place or turn to a particular end or consequence. Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes. – Dryden.
5. To adapt; to form for any purpose. Then must thou thee dispose another way. – Hubberd's Tale.
6. To set the mind in a particular frame; to incline. Avarice disposes men to fraud and oppression. Suspicion disposes kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. – Bacon. He was disposed to pass into Achaia. – Acts xviii. 1 Cor. x. 27 To dispose of, to part with; to alienate; as, the man has disposed of his house, and removed. #2. To part with to another; to put into another's hand or power; to bestow; as, the father has disposed of his daughter to a man of great worth. #3. To give away or transfer by authority. A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. – Waller. #4. To direct the course of a thing. – Prov. xvi. #5. To place in any condition; as, how will you dispose of your son? #6. To direct what to do or what course to pursue; as, they know not how to dispose of themselves. #7. To use or employ; as, they know not how to dispose of their time. #8. To put away. The stream supplies more water than can be disposed of.

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 bargain; to make terms.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   She had disposed with Cæsar. Shak.

3. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
   
   
   [Obs.]

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

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

   The knightly forms of combat to dispose. Dryden.

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

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

6. 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.

7. 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. (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. Locke.

   (b)