disposition

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   your usual mood

   The child has a happy disposition.

2. 2
   noun

   a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing

   a swelling with a disposition to rupture

3. 3
   noun

   The way in which something or someone is disposed or disposed of (in any sense of those terms); thus:

   The scouts reported on the disposition of the enemy troops.

4. 4
   noun

   Provision; clause.

   The C.C. is the supreme interpreter of the Constitution (Section 1 of the O.L.C.C.) and, as we have already said, it was granted the monopoly of declaring unconstitutional the legal dispositions.

5. 5
   noun

   the act or means of getting rid of something

6. 6
   noun

   an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others

7. 7
   verb

   To remove or place in a different position.

Etymology

From Middle English disposicioun, from Middle French disposition, from Latin dispositiōnem, accusative singular of dispositiō, from dispōnō. By surface analysis, dispose + -ition. Doublet of dispositio.