a. [ From Dispose. ] Subject to disposal; free to be used or employed as occasion may require; not assigned to any service or use. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great of this kingdom . . . has easily afforded a disposable surplus. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. designed to be disposed of after use; -- of articles of commerce. The term implies that it is less expensive to manufacture a new one than to clean and recycle the used item to make it fit for use again; as, disposable dishes; disposable diapers; disposable gloves. Opposite of reusable.
Syn. -- throwaway(predicate), non-reusable. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Economics) that portion of income which is available for spending on discretionary purchases; for individuals, it is usually calculated as total income less taxes. National disposable income, which is the disposable income of all individuals and businesses, is calculated as total national income minus taxes plus transfer payments. Dornbusch and Fischer (Macroeconomics) [ PJC ]

n. [ From Dispose. ] 1. The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

The execution leave to high disposal. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property. [ 1913 Webster ]

A domestic affair of great importance, which is no less than the disposal of my sister Jenny for life. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Power or authority to dispose of, determine the condition of, control, etc., especially in the phrase at, or in, the disposal of. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sole and absolute disposal of him an his concerns. South.

Syn. -- Disposition; dispensation; management; conduct; government; distribution; arrangement; regulation; control. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who hath disposed the whole world? Job xxxiv. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest themselves in troops did else dispose. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine. [ 1913 Webster ]

The knightly forms of combat to dispose. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Importuned him that what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose
To future good our past and present woes. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] More water . . . than can be disposed of. T. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ] I have disposed of her to a man of business. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ] A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize. Waller.

Syn. -- To set; arrange; order; distribute; adjust; regulate; adapt; fit; incline; bestow; give. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To bargain; to make terms. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She had disposed with Cæsar. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

But such is the dispose of the sole Disposer of empires. Speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He hath a person, and a smooth dispose
To be suspected. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. a. 1. Inclined; minded. [ 1913 Webster ]

When he was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts xviii. 27. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclined to mirth; jolly. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

Well disposed, in good condition; in good health. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disposal. [ Obs. ] Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, disposes; a regulator; a director; a bestower. [ 1913 Webster ]

Absolute lord and disposer of all things. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner to dispose. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Disposition. ] Disposed. [ Obs. ] Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels. Acts vii. 53. [ 1913 Webster ]

The disposition of the work, to put all things in a beautiful order and harmony, that the whole may be of a piece. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Conscious inclination; propension or propensity. [ 1913 Webster ]

How stands your disposition to be married? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

His disposition led him to do things agreeable to his quality and condition wherein God had placed him. Strype. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Mood; humor. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to disposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. dispositif. ] 1. Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His dispositive wisdom and power. Bates. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. [ Obs. ] “Dispositive holiness.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. See Disposition. ] 1. A disposer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astrol.) The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. [ Obs. ] Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dispossessed p. pr. & vb. n. Dispossessing. ] [ Pref. dis- + possess: cf. F. déposséder. ] To put out of possession; to deprive of the actual occupancy of, particularly of land or real estate; to disseize; to eject; -- usually followed by of before the thing taken away; as, to dispossess a king of his crown. [ 1913 Webster ]

Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.
Syn. -- homeless, roofless. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

made a living out of shepherding dispossessed people from one country to another James Stern

n. [ Cf. F. dépossession. ] 1. The act of putting out of possession; the state of being dispossessed. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) The putting out of possession, wrongfully or otherwise, of one who is in possession of a freehold, no matter in what title; -- called also ouster. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dispossesses. Cowley. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To eject from a post; to displace. [ R. ] Davies (Holy Roode). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Dispose. ] 1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give up
My estate to his disposure. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bestow beforehand. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

King James had by promise foredisposed the place on the Bishop of Meath. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Indisposed p. pr. & vb. n. Indisposing. ] [ OE. indispos indisposed, feeble, or F. indisposé indisposed. See In- not, and Dispose. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It made him rather indisposed than sick. Walton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes the mind to severe study; the pride and selfishness of men indispose them to religious duties. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king was sufficiently indisposed towards the persons, or the principles, of Calvin's disciples. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being indisposed. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. indisposition. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. [ 1913 Webster ]

A general indisposition towards believing. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A slight disorder or illness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rather as an indisposition in health than as any set sickness. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Erroneous disposal or application. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Predisposed p. pr. & vb. n. Predisposing. ] [ Pref. pre- + dispose: cf. F. prédisposer. ] 1. To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

Predisposing causes (Med.), causes which render the body liable to disease; predisponent causes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. pre- + disposition: cf. F. prédisposition. ] 1. The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.
Syn. -- inclination; tendency; predilection; propensity. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Previous fitness or adaptation to any change, impression, or purpose; susceptibility; -- applied to material things; as, the predisposition of the body to disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To render indisposed beforehand. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange. A. Baxter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Indisposition; disinclination. [ 1913 Webster ]