\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.
         Who hath disposed the whole world?    --Job xxxiv.
                                               13.
         All ranged in order and disposed with grace. --Pope.
         The rest themselves in troops did else dispose.
                                               --Spenser.
2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
         The knightly forms of combat to dispose. --Dryden.
3. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object
   or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.
         Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on
         her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor.
                                               --Evelyn.
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.
         Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose To future
         good our past and present woes.       --Dryden.
         Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to
         jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and
         melancholy.                           --Bacon.
{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.
             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.
             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.

\Dis*pose"\, v. i.
To bargain; to make terms. [Obs.]
      She had disposed with C[ae]sar.          --Shak.

\Dis*pose"\, n.
1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.
   [Obs.]
         But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of
         empires.                              --Speed.
2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior;
   demeanor. [Obs.]
         He hath a person, and a smooth dispose To be
         suspected.                            --Shak.