dispose

verb

1. (intransitive, with-of)To eliminate or to get rid of something.

   “I dispose of my trash in the garbage can.”

2. To distribute or arrange; to put in place.

   “Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!”

   “Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.”

   “I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in[…].”

   “By disposing the driving power over a number of cars instead of concentrating it in a single locomotive a great advance was made towards a high rate of acceleration.”

3. To deal out; to assign to a use.

   “what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor”

4. To incline.

   “In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution.”

   “Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.”

   “They [suspicions] dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.”

   “At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.”

5. (obsolete)To bargain; to make terms.

   “She had disposed with Caesar.”

6. (obsolete)To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

   “the knightly forms of combat to dispose”

noun

1. (obsolete)The disposal or management of something.

   “By thus doing, he submits himself to God's rod, commits himself to the dispose of his providence; yea, by thus doing, he casteth the lot of his present and future condition into the lap of his creditors, and leaves the whole dispose thereof to the Lord […]”

2. (obsolete)Behaviour; disposition.