KJV Dictionary Definition: disposable

disposable

DISPOSABLE, a. See Dispose. Subject to disposal; not previously engaged or employed; free to be used or employed as occasion may require.

The whole disposable force consisted in a regiment of light infantry, and a troop of calvary.

disposal

DISPOSAL, n. See Dispose.

1. The act of disposing; a setting or arranging.

This object was effected by the disposal of the troops in two lines.

2. Regulation, order or arrangement of things, int he moral government of God; dispensation.

Tax not divine disposal.

3. Power of ordering, arranging or distributing; government; management; as, an agent is appointed, and every thing is left to his disposal. The effects in my hands are entirely at my disposal.

4. Power or right of bestowing. Certain offices are at the disposal of the president. The father has the disposal of his daughter in marriage.

5. The passing into a new state or into new hands.

dispose

DISPOSE, v.t. dispoze. L.

1. To set; to place or distribute; to arrange; used with reference to order. The ships were disposed in the form of a crescent. The general disposed his troops in three lines. The trees are disposed in the form of a quincunx.

2. To regulate; to adjust; to set in right order. Job 34 and 37.

The knightly forms of combat to dispose.

3. To apply to a particular purpose; to give; to place; to bestow; as, you have disposed much in works of public piety. In this sense, to dispose of is more generally used.

4. To set, place or turn to a particular end or consequence.

Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose to future good our past and present woes.

5. To adapt; to form for any purpose.

Then must thou thee dispose another way.

6. To set the mind in a particular frame; to incline. Avarice disposes men to fraud and oppression.

Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

He was disposed to pass into Achaia. Acts 18. 1 Corinthians 10:27.

To dispose of,

1. To part with; to alienate; as, the man has disposed of his house, and removed.

2. To part with to another; to put into anothers hand or power; to bestow; as, the father has disposed of his daughter to a man of great worth.

3. To give away or transfer by authority.

A rural judge disposed of beautys prize.

4. To direct the course of a thing. Proverbs 16.

5. To place in any condition; as, how will you dispose of your son?

6. To direct what to do or what course to pursue; as, they know not how to dispose of themselves.

7. To use or employ; as, they know not how to dispose of their time.

8. To put away. The stream supplies more water than can be disposed of.

DISPOSE, v.i. To bargain; to make terms.

DISPOSE, n.

1. Disposal; power of disposing; management.

2. Dispensation; act of government.

3. Disposition; cast of behavior.

4. Disposition; cast of mind; inclination.

disposed

DISPOSED, pp. Set in order; arranged; placed; adjusted; applied; bestowed; inclined.

disposer

DISPOSER, n.

1. One who disposes; a distributor; a bestower; as a disposer of gifts.

2. A director; a regulator.

The Supreme Being is the rightful disposer of all events, and of all creatures.

3. That which disposes.

disposing

DISPOSING, ppr. Setting in order; arranging; distributing; bestowing; regulating; adjusting; governing.

DISPOSING, n. The act of arranging; regulation; direction. Proverbs 16:33.

Definitions from Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language, 1828.
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