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indispose, v.|ɪndɪˈspəʊz|
[f. in-3 + dispose v.; perh. orig. a back-formation from next.]
1. To put out of the proper condition or ‘disposition’ for some action or result; to render unfit or incapable (to do something, or for something); to disqualify, incapacitate.
1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 113 Dust (much more ashes) will..so fur their dew-clawed feet, that it will in-dispose them to flye. 1672Wilkins Nat. Relig. 33 That prejudice..and their ignorance of His divine commission and high calling, did indispose them for an equal judgment of things, and render them unteachable. 1674Govt. Tongue viii. §12. 149 He so indisposes the soil, that no future seeds can ever take root. 1710Norris Chr. Prud. vii. 310 Rather assisting than indisposing a man to be a good Christian. 1863E. FitzGerald Lett. (1889) I. 291 Not to get one's Sleep..indisposes one more or less for the Day.
2. To affect with bodily indisposition, put out of health, disorder. (Chiefly in pa. pple.; see indisposed, 4.)
1694Wood Life 31 Dec. (O.H.S.) III. 475 This hard winter of 1694 hath strangley indisposed my body. 1714Addison Spect. No. 582 ⁋1 The Small-Pox..after having indisposed you for a time, never returns again. 1726G. Roberts 4 Years Voy. 333 He was a little indisposed by a Fall that he had received. 1821Examiner 156/2 Varney causes the Countess to swallow a medicine to indispose her.
3. To affect with mental indisposition, disincline, render averse or unwilling. Const. to, or with inf.; rarely towards, from.
1692Locke Educ. §21 You are now..to indispose him to those Inconveniences as much as you can. 1709Tatler No. 90 ⁋5 A Scene written with so great Strength of Imagination, indisposed me from farther reading. 1798Malthus Popul. iii. x. (1806) II. 262 note, Indisposing landlords to let long leases of farms. 1817J. Scott Paris Revisit. (ed. 4) 309 The miseries of the revolution, succeeded..by..an imperial despotism, had totally indisposed the people towards any interference with politics. 1889Spectator 16 Mar., An annual summons would indispose everybody to employ Reserve-men, and therefore destroy the force.
4. To cause to be unfavourably disposed; to make unfriendly, set at variance. (Now unusual.)
1748Chesterfield Lett. (1792) II. clxvi. 108 Polemical conversations.. certainly do indispose, for a time, the contending parties towards each other. 1779F. Hervey Nav. Hist. II. 103 The declamations of the pulpit, indisposed the minds of men towards each other, and propagated the blind rage of party. 1788A. Hamilton Federalist No. 83 II. 337 The capricious operation of so dissimilar a method of trial..is of itself sufficient to indispose every well regulated judgment towards it. 1815W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXX. 462 The licentious passages might have indisposed the censors of the Inquisition. 1848Ld. Malmesbury Mem. Ex-minister (1884) I. 209 She had long indisposed the whole kingdom against her.
5. To undo a physical tendency or inclination in; to render not liable or subject (to something).
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 347 A constitutional or superinduced hebetude of the muscular coat of the bladder, so as to indispose it to inflammation. 1830Coleridge Table-t. 23 May, Inoculation..has so entered into the constitution, as to indispose it to infection under the most accumulated and intense contagion. |