Disposition
Disposition , noun
[French disposition, dispositio, from disponere to dispose; dis- + ponere to place. See Position, and compare 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.
The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece.
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?
5.
Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind.
A man of turbulent disposition.
He is of a very melancholy disposition.
His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him.
6.
Mood; humor.
As I perchance hereafter shall think meet
To put an antic disposition on.