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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Disposition \Dis`po*si"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. [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] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: disposition n 1: your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition" [syn: {disposition}, {temperament}] 2: the act or means of getting rid of something [syn: {disposal}, {disposition}] 3: 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" [syn: {inclination}, {disposition}, {tendency}] 4: a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing; "a swelling with a disposition to rupture" From French-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.4 [fd-fra-eng]: disposition /dispozisjɔ̃/ accommodation; adjustment; arrangement; predisposition; tendency