Word Meanings - ATTEMPTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disposed to attempt; adventurous. Daniel.

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• DISPOSEMENT
  Disposal. Goodwin.
• DISPOSURE
  1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
• DISPOSITED
  Disposed. Glanvill.
• DISPOSITOR
  The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
• DISPOSEDNESS
  The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
• DISPOSSESS
  To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. Usurp the land, and dispossess
• ADVENTUROUSNESS
  The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness.
• DISPOSED
  1. Inclined; minded. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. 2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. Beau. & Fl. Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. Chaucer.
• ATTEMPTER
  1. One who attempts; one who essays anything. 2. An assailant; also, a temper.
• DISPOSINGLY
  In a manner to dispose.
• DISPOSSESSOR
  One who dispossesses. Cowley.
• DISPOSSESSION
  The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. (more info) 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall.
• ATTEMPTABLE
  Capable of being attempted, tried, or attacked. Shak.
• ATTEMPTIVE
  Disposed to attempt; adventurous. Daniel.
• ATTEMPT
  A essay, trial, or endeavor; an undertaking; an attack, or an effort to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort. By his blindness maimed for high attempts. Milton. Attempt to commit a crime , such an intentional
• DISPOSAL
  1. The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines. 2. Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction. The execution leave
• DISPOST
  To eject from a post; to displace. Davies .
• DISPOSER
  One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow.
• DISPOSITIONAL
  Pertaining to disposition.
• DANIEL
  A Hebrew prophet distinguished for sagacity and ripeness of judgment in youth; hence, a sagacious and upright judge. A Daniel come to judgment. Shak.
• DISPOSE
  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
• FOREDISPOSE
  To bestow beforehand. King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller.
• PREINDISPOSE
  To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.
• REDISPOSE
  To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange. A. Baxter.
• PREDISPOSE
  1. To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship. 2. To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease. Predisposing causes
• INDISPOSE
  1. To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify. 2. To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat. Shak. It made him rather indisposed than sick. Walton. 3. To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes