Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Dis*pos"ed*ness (?), n. The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. [R.]
Dis*pose"ment (?), n. Disposal. [Obs.] Goodwin.
Dis*pos"er (?), n. One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower.
Absolute lord and disposer of all things.
Barrow.
Dis*pos"ing*ly, adv. In a manner to dispose.
Dis*pos"it*ed (?), a. [See Disposition.] Disposed. [Obs.] Glanvill.
Dis`po*si"tion (?), n. [F. disposition, dispositio, fr. disponere to dispose; dis- + ponere to place. See Position, and cf. Dispone.] 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.