Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To make averse; disincline.
- transitive verb To cause to be or feel ill; sicken.
- transitive verb To render unfit; disqualify.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To render averse or unfavorable; disincline.
- To render unfit or unsuited; disqualify.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.
- transitive verb To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat.
- transitive verb To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.
- verb transitive To make
indisposed , or slightly unwell. - verb transitive To
disincline .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb make unwilling
- verb make unfit or unsuitable
- verb cause to feel unwell
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Examples
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Avoid as much as you can, in mixed companies, argumentative, polemical conversations; which, though they should not, yet certainly do, indispose for a time the contending parties toward each other; and, if the controversy grows warm and noisy, endeavor to put an end to it by some genteel levity or joke.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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“What circumstances can possibly indispose you to give your law business to Mr. Darch?”
Armadale 2003
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Grace comes to alter our natural dispositions, that are unsuited to love, and indispose us for it.
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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Indeed, at or near this time there were three particular occurrences which, when taken together, might well disturb the serenity and cheerfulness of her mind, and indispose her for writing -- especially writing of a humorous character.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
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Brigade of Infantry as it issued, about 10 a.m., from among the trees of Les Amusoires, may have been a moral factor in itself sufficient to indispose the German outposts to remain longer upon the outskirts of
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Geoffrey Keith Rose
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It is possible, that in my own country, these strictures might produce an irritation, which would indispose the people towards (one of) the two great objects I have in view; that is, the emancipation of their slaves.
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Nor ought the humble condition of the oppressed to indispose him to grant them a hearing; for the doctrine they professed was not their own, but that of the Almighty himself.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) Henry Martyn Baird
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It is matter of familiar remark that the tendency of warm climates is to relax the human constitution and indispose to labor.
Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott
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Lents, and weekly Fasts, indispose if they do not disable their labouring Poor to Work as much as their Wants require; the spiritual
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It is possible that, in my own country, these strictures might produce an irritation which would indispose the people toward the two great objects I have in view; that is, the emancipation of their slaves, and the settlement of their constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.
Anti-Slavery Opinions before the Year 1800 Read before the Cincinnati Literary Club, November 16, 1872 William Frederick Poole
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