\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.
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. ``A man of turbulent disposition.''
   --Hallam. ``He is of a very melancholy disposition.''
   --Shak.
         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.
Syn: Disposal; adjustment; regulation; arrangement;
     distribution; order; method; adaptation; inclination;
     propensity; bestowment; alienation; character; temper;
     mood. -- {Disposition}, {Character}, {Temper}.
     Disposition is the natural humor of a person, the
     predominating quality of his character, the
     constitutional habit of his mind. Character is this
     disposition influenced by motive, training, and will.
     Temper is a quality of the fiber of character, and is
     displayed chiefly when the emotions, especially the
     passions, are aroused.