dispose

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1. dispose - Noun

2. dispose - Verb

Meaning

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

To deal out; to assign to a use; to bestow for an object or purpose; to apply; to employ; to dispose of.

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.

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.

To bargain; to make terms.

Disposal; ordering; management; power or right of control.

Cast of mind; disposition; inclination; behavior; demeanor.

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To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium. Eric Hoffer

It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose. Franklin D. Roosevelt

He who has two cakes of bread, let him dispose of one of them for some flowers of the narcissus; for bread is the food of the body, and the narcissus is the food of the soul. Galen

Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot. Albert Einstein

It is so much simpler to bury reality than it is to dispose of dreams. Don DeLillo

Do not dispose of the monkey's tail before he is dead. African Congo Proverb

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