Disposition

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Mood; humor.

II. Disposition ·noun Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.

III. Disposition ·noun Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.

IV. Disposition ·noun The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

V. Disposition ·noun Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.

VI. Disposition ·noun The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an Edifice.

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