Word Meanings - GADDISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and folly." Abp. Leighton.

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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
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• DISPOSITIVE
  1. Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. His dispositive wisdom and power. Bates. 2. Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. "Dispositive holiness." Jer. Taylor.
• DISPOSITIVELY
  In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. Sir T. Browne. Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.
• DISPOSITION
  1. The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. The disposition of the work,
• DISPOSABLE
  Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use. The great of this kingdom . . . has easily afforded a disposable surplus. Burke.
• 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
• DISPOSITIONED
  Having a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well- dispositioned.
• 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
• INDISPOSITION
  1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. 2. A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as
• PREDISPOSITION
  1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger. 2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression,
• UNDISPOSEDNESS
  Indisposition; disinclination.