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Definition of Predisposes
1. predispose [v] - See also: predispose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predisposes
Literary usage of Predisposes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the by Daniel Drake (1854)
"Now in every case of this kind, there is a tubercular diathesis, which predisposes
to catarrh, and that little ..."
2. Educational Issues in the Kindergarten by Susan Elizabeth Blow (1908)
"The jumble of different materials distracts unstable minds, and predisposes to
imperative or vacillating choices. The fact that some of the occupations ..."
3. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1907)
"Bad Ventilation Predisposes to Disease The most helpful health rule which man
can adopt for himself or> for liis domestic animals is to avoid whatever tends ..."
4. A Text Book of the Physics of Agriculture by Franklin Hiram King (1899)
"Bad Ventilation Predisposes to Disease.—The most helpful health rule which man
can adopt for himself or for his domestic animals is to avoid whatever tends ..."
5. Lectures on the science of human life by Sylvester Graham (1849)
"... for they may be assured that it cannot be neglected without much hazard to
the health and life of the young. Habitual costiveness predisposes NOTE A. to ..."
6. The London Medical Gazette (1835)
"Tliis fact I regard as sufficient evidence of their not possessing that peculiar
kind of physical conformation (be it what it may) which predisposes to ..."
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