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English Dictionary: disposition	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
disposition n your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition" [syn: disposition, temperament] the act or means of getting rid of something Synonym(s): disposal, disposition an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" Synonym(s): inclination, disposition, tendency a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Disposition \Dis`posi"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. [bd]A man of turbulent disposition.[b8] --Hallam. [bd]He is of a very melancholy disposition.[b8] --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.