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Definition of Predispose
1. Verb. Make susceptible. "This illness predisposes you to gain weight"
Definition of Predispose
1. v. t. To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship.
Definition of Predispose
1. Verb. To make someone susceptible to something (such as a disease). ¹
2. Verb. To make someone inclined to something in advance; to influence. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predispose
1. [v -POSED, -POSING, -POSES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predispose
Literary usage of Predispose
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1884)
"The water is " hard," and the proximity of the ground water to the surface of
the earth renders the habitations damp, may predispose to phthisis, ..."
2. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1903)
"(2) Whether the combination of other drugs with the arsenic does predispose to
this dermatitis ? In one of the later cases, having stopped the arsenic and ..."
3. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"Wherefore ambassadors were sent both to Antiochus himself, to pick matter of
quarrel; and about unto others, to predispose them unto the assisting of the ..."
4. Consumption a Curable and Preventable Disease: What a Layman Should Know by Lawrence Francis Flick (1903)
"The diseases which predispose to consumption are of two kinds, those which change
the contour of the body or of any of its organs, and those which weaken ..."
5. The Rebellion in India: How to Prevent Another by John Bruce Norton (1857)
"... relations of social classes, their historical recol- " lections, or some
similar permanent phenomena, " which may predispose them to violent outbreaks. ..."
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