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dispose

See also:disposé

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FromFrenchdisposer.

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dispose(third-person singular simple presentdisposes,present participledisposing,simple past and past participledisposed)

  1. (intransitive,used with "of")Toeliminateor toget rid ofsomething.
    Idisposeof my trash in the garbage can.
  2. Todistributeorarrange;toputin place.
    • 1599(date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”,inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies[…](First Folio), London:[…]Isaac Iaggard,andEd[ward]Blount,published1623,→OCLC,[Act IV, scene iii]:
      Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God,disposethe day!
    • 1811,[Jane Austen],Sense and Sensibility[…],volume(please specify |volume=I to III),London:[…]C[harles]Roworth,[…],and published byT[homas]Egerton,[…],→OCLC:
      Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properlydisposedof, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.
    • 1934,Rex Stout,Fer-de-Lance,Bantam,published1992,→ISBN,page47:
      I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner gotdisposedthan the door opened and a man came in[…].
    • 1950September, “Central London Railway Jubilee”, inRailway Magazine,page620:
      Bydisposingthe driving power over a number of cars instead of concentrating it in a single locomotive a great advance was made towards a high rate of acceleration.
  3. Todeal out;toassignto ause.
    • 1818(first published),John Evelyn,diary entry for 1634
      what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would ratherdisposeamong the poor
  4. Toincline.
    In these uncertain times, I amdisposedtowards caution.
    (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)
    • 1697,Virgil,“(please specify the book number)”,inJohn Dryden,transl.,The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis.[…],London:[…]Jacob Tonson,[…],→OCLC:
      Endure and conquer; Jove will soondispose/ To future good our past and present woes.
    • 1625,Francis [Bacon],“Of Suspicion”, inThe Essayes[…],3rd edition, London:[…]Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret,→OCLC:
      They [suspicions]disposekings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
    • 1892,Walter Besant,chapter II, inThe Ivory Gate[…],New York, N.Y.:Harper & Brothers,[…],→OCLC:
      At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when sodisposed,sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.
  5. (obsolete)Tobargain;tomaketerms.
  6. (obsolete)Toregulate;toadjust;tosettle;todetermine.

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dispose

  1. (obsolete)Thedisposalormanagementof something.
    • 1680,John Bunyan,The Life and Death of Mr Badman:
      By thus doing, he submits himself to God's rod, commits himself to thedisposeof his providence; yea, by thus doing, he casteth the lot of his present and future condition into the lap of his creditors, and leaves the wholedisposethereof to the Lord[…]
  2. (obsolete)Behaviour;disposition.

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dispose

  1. inflection ofdisposer:
    1. first/third-personsingularpresentindicative/subjunctive
    2. second-personsingularimperative

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dispose

  1. third-personsingularpast historic ofdisporre

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