Disposition

Monday 7^th November 2016

Disposition - /dɪspəˈzɪʃ(ə)n/

Noun    

1a) A person's inherent qualities of mind and character.

1b) [often with infinitive] An inclination or tendency.

2a) [mass noun] The way in which something is placed or arranged, especially in relation to other things.

2b) The action of arranging people or things in a particular way.

2c) The stationing of troops ready for military action.

3) Law 
[mass noun] The distribution or transfer of property or money to someone, especially by bequest.

4a) The power to deal with something as one pleases.

4b) archaic The determination of events by divine power.

Example sentences

Noun

1a) ‘a sweet-natured girl of a placid disposition’

1a) ‘he has the disposition of a saint’

1b) ‘the Prime Minister has shown a disposition to alter policies’

1b) ‘the judge's disposition to clemency’

2a) ‘the plan shows the disposition of the rooms’

2b) ‘the prerogative gives the state widespread powers regarding the disposition and control of the armed forces’

2c) ‘the new strategic dispositions of our forces’

3) ‘this is a tax which affects the disposition of assets on death’

4a) ‘if Napoleon had had railways at his disposition, he would have been invincible’

4b) ‘The first is that there are good reasons to think that there are irreducible dispositions in nature, and that where such dispositions are manifested, there are logically necessary casual connections.’

Origin

Late Middle English: via Old French from Latin dispositio(n-), from disponere arrange (see dispose).

Thanks to: www.oxforddictionaries.com