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单词 indispose
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indisposev.

/ɪndɪˈspəʊz/
Etymology: < in- prefix4 + dispose v.; perhaps originally a back-formation < indisposed adj.
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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > ability > inability > render unable [verb (transitive)] > render unapt or unfit
undisposec1380
inhabile1534
unapt1593
unfit1611
unqualify1631
indispose1657
disfit1669
inhabilitate1670
disqualify1723
unsuit1869
1657 S. Purchas Theatre Flying-insects 113 Dust (much more ashes) will..so fur their dew-clawed feet, that it will in-dispose them to flye.
1672 Bp. J. Wilkins Of Princ. 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.
1674 Govt. Tongue viii. §12. 149 He so indisposes the soil, that no future seeds can ever take root.
1710 J. Norris Treat. Christian Prudence vii. 310 Rather assisting than indisposing a man to be a good Christian.
1863 E. 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 past participle; see indisposed adj. 4.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > disorder health of
undisposec1380
overturna1382
mistemperc1485
disorder1526
overthrow1562
overset?a1600
disaffect1623
discompose1694
indispose1694
upset1845
1694 A. Wood Life & Times (1894) III. 475 This hard winter of 1694 hath strangley indisposed my body.
1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 582. ¶1 The Small-Pox..after having indisposed you for a time, never returns again.
1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 333 He was a little indisposed by a Fall that he had received.
1821 Examiner 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 infinitive; rarely towards, from.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > wish or inclination > unwillingness > hesitate or scruple at [verb (transitive)] > render unwilling
loathe1568
indispose1692
1692 J. Locke Some Thoughts conc. Educ. §21 You are now..to indispose him to those Inconveniences as much as you can.
1709 Tatler No. 90. ⁋5 A Scene written with so great Strength of Imagination, indisposed me from farther reading.
1806 T. R. Malthus Ess. Princ. Population (ed. 3) II. iii. x. 262 Indisposing landlords to let long leases of farms.
1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited ix. 309 The miseries of the revolution, succeeded..by..an imperial despotism, had totally indisposed the people towards any interference with politics.
1889 Spectator 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.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > quarrel or fall at variance with [verb (transitive)] > set at variance
indispose1748
vary1795
1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 19 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1246 Polemical conversations..indispose, for a time, the contending parties towards each other.
1779 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. II. 103 The declamations of the pulpit, indisposed the minds of men towards each other, and propagated the blind rage of party.
1788 A. Hamilton in A. Hamilton et al. Federalist II. lxxxiii. 337 The capricious operation of so dissimilar a method of trial..is of itself sufficient to indispose every well regulated judgment towards it.
1815 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 70 462 The licentious passages might have indisposed the censors of the Inquisition.
1848 Earl of 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).
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > tend or incline [verb (transitive)] > render not liable
indispose1822
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 447 A constitutional or superinduced hebetude of the muscular coat of the bladder so as to indispose it to inflammation.
1830 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 23 May Inoculation..has so entered into the constitution, as to indispose it to infection under the most accumulated and intense contagion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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