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the indirect object. Endure and conquer; Jove will soon disposeDryden. Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.Bacon. Freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons.Locke. More water . . . than can be disposed of.T. Burnet. I have disposed of her to a man of business.Tatler. A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize.Waller. Syn. To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give. Dispose She had disposed with Cæsar.Shak. But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires.Speed. He hath a person, and a smooth disposeShak. When he was disposed to pass into Achaia.Acts xviii. 27. |
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