predisposaln.

1662 Life & Death Mrs. Mary Frith 122 Some of my Proselytes, for their good omen of their initiation by my predisposal of them..rencountring one another at my threshold, to the ravishing wonder of those mutual desirers, who little expected such sudden Fruition.

1680 Six Metaphysical Meditations 146 Perhaps there may be Many, who respecting Gods predisposal of Things cannot Comprehend, How their Freedom of Will Consists there-with.

1795 A. Hughes Jemima I. 119 If you had not rendered that desirable event impossible, by the predisposal of yourself,..your Jemima should have become your wife.

1830 J. F. W. Herschel Prelim. Disc. Study Nat. Philos. §26 This contemplation of possible occurrences, and predisposal of what shall happen.

1843 Times 18 Sept. 6/1 The liquidation of the debt due to the Commercial Company, and the conclusion of a new arrangement with that company, in order to obtain a predisposal of the productions of the East Indies.

2002 tr. S. Lancel St Augustine xxxii. 434 The preaching of predestination, the predisposal of his gifts made by God for all eternity, which especially fills the bishop's last two books.