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Word Meanings - GRIPEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disposed to gripe; extortionate.

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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.
  • GRIPE
    A device for grasping or holding anything; a brake to stop a wheel. 4. Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty. 5. Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines; -- chiefly used in the plural. The piece
  • 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.
  • GRIPER
    One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.
  • 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 .
  • GRIPEFUL
    Disposed to gripe; extortionate.
  • 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.
  • EXTORTIONATE
    Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • HANDYGRIPE
    Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.
  • 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,

 

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