Definition of Predisposes

1. Verb. (third-person singular of predispose) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Predisposes

1. predispose [v] - See also: predispose

Lexicographical Neighbors of Predisposes

predischarge
predisco
prediscount
prediscover
prediscovered
prediscoveries
prediscovering
prediscovers
prediscovery
prediscussed
prediscussion
predisponencies
predisponency
predispose
predisposed
predisposes (current term)
predisposing
predisposition
predispositions
predissected
predissociation
predissociations
predistressed
predistribution
preditor
preditors
predive
predjudice
predjudices
prednimustine

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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