dispose

verb

1. 1

   To eliminate or to get rid of something.

   I dispose of my trash in the garbage can.

2. 2

   To distribute or arrange; to put in place.

   Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!

   Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.

   I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in[…].

   By disposing the driving power over a number of cars instead of concentrating it in a single locomotive a great advance was made towards a high rate of acceleration.

3. 3

   To deal out; to assign to a use.

   what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor

4. 4

   To incline.

   In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution.

   Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.

   They [suspicions] dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

   At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.

5. 5

   obsoleteTo bargain; to make terms.

   She had disposed with Caesar.

6. 6

   obsoleteTo regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

   the knightly forms of combat to dispose

noun

1. 1

   obsoleteThe disposal or management of something.

   By thus doing, he submits himself to God's rod, commits himself to the dispose of his providence; yea, by thus doing, he casteth the lot of his present and future condition into the lap of his creditors, and leaves the whole dispose thereof to the Lord […]

2. 2

   obsoleteBehaviour; disposition.

Forms

past tense

disposed

past participle

disposed

present participle

disposing

third person singular

disposes