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Definition of Indispose

1. Verb. Make unwilling.

2. Verb. Make unfit or unsuitable. "Your income disqualifies you"

3. Verb. Cause to feel unwell. "She was indisposed"

Definition of Indispose

1. v. t. To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.

Definition of Indispose

1. [v -POSED, -POSING, -POSES]

Medical Definition of Indispose

1. 1. To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify. 2. To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat. "It made him rather indisposed than sick." (Walton) 3. To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes the mind to severe study; the pride and selfishness of men indispose them to religious duties. "The king was sufficiently indisposed towards the persons, or the principles, of Calvin's disciples." (Clarendon) Origin: OE. Indispos indisposed, feeble, or F. Indispose indisposed. See In- not, and Dispose. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indispose

indiscriminateness indiscriminating indiscriminatingly indiscrimination indiscriminative indiscussed indiscussible indispensability indispensable indispensableness

indispensables indispensably indispensible indispersed indisposable indispose (current term) indisposed indisposed(p) indisposedness indisposes

indisposing indisposition indispositions indisputability indisputable indisputableness indisputably indisputed indissipable indissociable

Literary usage of Indispose

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"... Addison, Richardson, bewitch the soul, and are apt to indispose for holy meditation and other religious exercises,' and although he eagerly opposed the ..."

2. A View of the Art of Colonization, in Letters Between a Statesman and a Colonist by Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1914)
"HOW THE " SHOVELLING OUT OF PAUPERS," AND EMIGRATION AS A PUNISHMENT, indispose THE POORER CLASSES TO EMIGRATE, AND ESPECIALLY THE BETTER SORT OP THEM. ..."

3. The Medico-chirurgical Review, and Journal of Practical Medicine (1846)
"... joined to the knowledge that the present volumes abound in errors as to matters of fact and observation, will indispose the judicious enquirer to place ..."

4. Select Anecdotes and Instructive Incidents: Taken from Publications of by John Barclay (1833)
"... considered innocent, seem calculated to enervate the mind of the reader, and indispose it. for perusing the scriptures and other religious books. ..."

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