dispose

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That pleaseth God, which all things doth dispose --

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  1. transitive verb To place or set in a particular order; arrange.
  2. transitive verb To put (business affairs, for example) into correct, definitive, or conclusive form.
  3. transitive verb To put into a willing or receptive frame of mind; incline. See Synonyms at incline.
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  • NET Memory Leak: To dispose or not to dispose, that's the 1 GB question —  MSDN Blogs
  • NET Memory Leak: To dispose or not to dispose, that??? —  MSDN Blogs
  • Much of it can be traced back to European hospitals and factories, who seem to be passing it on to the Italian mafia to "dispose" of cheaply. —  Infowars
  • Note: all wood purchased from a landscaping company that otherwise would have to pay to landfill-dispose of the wood residues! —  TreeHugger
  • I had to build structures to get over it, write longer articles to dig up and dispose, and sometimes I just went ahead and dropped a rock to let everyone see an explosion. —  MND: Your Daily Dose of Counter-Theory
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  1. Middle English disposen, from Old French disposer, alteration (influenced by poser, to put, place) of Latin dispōnere, to arrange : dis-, apart; see dis- + pōnere, to put; see apo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English disposen, from Old French disposer, desposer, French disposer, dispose, arrange, order, accommodation after poser, set, place (see pose), from Latin disponere, past participle dispositus, arrange, dispose, etc.: see dispone, and cf. disposition, etc
  2. from dispose, v.
 

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