premise: an <mask> disposition
hypothesis: the best context for <mask> here is Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; but not Of, pertaining to, or designating, certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the 12th century to the middle of the 16th, usurping many of the functions of the governments which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdiction..