# dispose
## English
### Etymology

From French disposer.

### Pronunciation

* (General American) IPA: /dɪsˈpoʊz/
* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /dɪˈspəʊz/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -əʊz

### Verb

dispose (third-person singular simple present disposes, present participle disposing, simple past and past participle disposed)
* (intransitive, used with "of") To eliminate or to get rid of something.
    I dispose of my trash in the garbage can.
* To distribute or arrange; to put in place.
** 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!
** 1811, [Jane Austen], Sense and Sensibility […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.
** 1934, Rex Stout, Fer-de-Lance, Bantam, published 1992, →ISBN, page 47: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 […] .
** 1950 September, “Central London Railway Jubilee”, in Railway Magazine, page 620: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.
* To deal out; to assign to a use.
** 1818 (first published), John Evelyn, diary entry for 1634
    what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor
* To incline.
    In these uncertain times, I am disposed towards caution. (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)
** 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.
** 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Suspicion”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:They [suspicions] dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.
** 1892, Walter Besant, chapter II, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC: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.
* (obsolete) To bargain; to make terms.
** 1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:She had disposed with Caesar.
* (obsolete) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.
** 1700, [John] Dryden, “Palamon and Arcite: Or, The Knight’s Tale. In Three Books.”, in Fables Ancient and Modern; […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:the knightly forms of combat to dispose

#### Synonyms

* incline
* discard

#### Antonyms

* indispose
* disincline

#### Derived terms

* disposability
* disposable
* disposal
* disposement
* dispose of
* disposition
* disposophobia
* foredispose
* misdispose
* redispose

#### Translations
### Noun

dispose
* (obsolete) The disposal or management of something.
** 1680, John Bunyan, The Life and Death of Mr Badman: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 […]
* (obsolete) Behaviour; disposition.

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

dispose
* inflection of disposer:
** first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** second-person singular imperative

## Italian
### Verb

dispose
* third-person singular past historic of disporre

### Anagrams

* dispeso