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disposure Now rare.|dɪˈspəʊʒ(j)ʊə(r)|
[f. dispose v. + -ure; cf. composure.]
1. Arrangement, order; = disposition 1, 2.
a1625Fletcher Hum. Lieutenant iii. iv, She is so great a mistress of disposure. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus iii. 47 The remarkable disposure of those yellow fringes about the purple Pestill of Aaron. 1704Swift Tale T. Concl. (1710) 240 In my Disposure of Employments of the Brain, I have thought fit to make Invention the Master. 1824Examiner 71/1 The disposure of the group is beautiful.
†b. Good order, orderly arrangement. Obs.
a1637B. Jonson Underwoods, Epit. V. Corbet, A life that..was..all order and disposure still.
†2. Ordering, control, management, direction; dispensation; = disposal 1, disposition 3. Obs.
1569Colman Let. in Strype Ann. Ref. I. lv. 609 Disposures..and crosses are very grievous to the flesh. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis ii. xvii. 119 Out of the placing of the Starres..out of their influence on Children..comes the whole disposure of their life and death. 1677Bates Chr. Relig. proved by Reason v. (R.) In the disposures of providence. 1689Proc. Pres. Parl. Justified 5 Dissatisfied with the Management and Disposure of Affairs.
3. The action of disposing of, making over, settling, etc.; bestowal, assignment; = disposal 2, 3; disposition 4.
a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Hist. Jas. I, Wks. (1711) 3 Rendring the disposure thereof [revenue] chast, sincere and pure for expenses necessary and profitable. 1665Evelyn Mem. (1857) III. 173 The disposure and assignment of this prodigious royal aid of {pstlg}2,500,000. 1682Pennsylv. Archives I. 50 Y⊇ Disposure of wen you have already made of great Scopes of land. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 168 Disposure of the commerce—that took time.
†4. Power or right to dispose of; = disposal 4, disposition 4 b. Obs.
1606Ford Honor Tri. (1843) 13 Inchained to the disposure of his ladie. 1630Massinger Picture i. ii, Surrendering up My will and faculties to your disposure. 1661E. Burroughs Plea conc. Quakers 20 At the Will and Disposure of the Almighty we are. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. iii. 38 To acquire Creditors is not at the Disposure of each Man's Arbitriment.
†5. Turn of mind; = disposition 6. Obs.
1613Chapman Revenge Bussy d'Ambois iv. H ij a, His sweet disposure, As much abhorring to behold, as doe Any vnnaturall and bloudy action. |