Disposition

Dis`po`si´tion

n.	1.	The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will. Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. - Acts vii. 53. The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. - Dryden.
	2.	The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
	3.	Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
	4.	Conscious inclination; propension or propensity. How stands your disposition to be married? - Shak.
	5.	Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind. His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. - Strype.
	6.	Mood; humor. As I perchance hereafter shall think meet To put an antic disposition on. - Shak.

Noun	1.	disposition - your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition" Synonyms: temperament
	2.	disposition - the act or means of getting rid of something Synonyms: disposal
	3.	disposition - an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" Synonyms: inclination, tendency
	4.	disposition - a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"

DISPOSITION, French law. This word has several acceptations; sometimes it signifies the effective marks of the will of some person; and at others the instrument containing those marks.
2. The dispositions of man make the dispositions of the law to cease; for example, when a man bequeaths his estate, the disposition he makes of it, renders the legal disposition of it, if he had died intestate, to cease.

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