Disposing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dispose \Dis*pose"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Disposed}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Disposing}.] [F. disposer; pref. dis- + poser to
     place. See {Pose}.]
     1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in
        order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.
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              Who hath disposed the whole world?    --Job xxxiv.
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              All ranged in order and disposed with grace. --Pope.
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              The rest themselves in troops did else dispose.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
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              The knightly forms of combat to dispose. --Dryden.
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     3. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object
        or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
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              Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on
              her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor.
                                                    --Evelyn.
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     4. To give a tendency or inclination to; to adapt; to cause
        to turn; especially, to incline the mind of; to give a
        bent or propension to; to incline; to make inclined; --
        usually followed by to, sometimes by for before the
        indirect object.
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              Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose
              To future good our past and present woes. --Dryden.
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              Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to
              jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and
              melancholy.                           --Bacon.
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     {To dispose of}.
        (a) To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of
            control over; to fix the condition, application,
            employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use.
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                  Freedom to order their actions and dispose of
                  their possessions and persons.    --Locke.
        (b) To exercise finally one's power of control over; to
            pass over into the control of some one else, as by
            selling; to alienate; to part with; to relinquish; to
            get rid of; as, to dispose of a house; to dispose of
            one's time.
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                  More water . . . than can be disposed of. --T.
                                                    Burnet.
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                  I have disposed of her to a man of business.
                                                    --Tatler.
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                  A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize.
                                                    --Waller.
  
     Syn: To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate;
          adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give.
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