Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To make averse; disincline.
- v. To cause to be or feel ill; sicken.
- v. To render unfit; disqualify.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To render averse or unfavorable; disincline.
- To render unfit or unsuited; disqualify.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.
- v. To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat.
- v. To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable
WordNet 3.0
- v. make unwilling
- v. make unfit or unsuitable
- v. cause to feel unwell
Examples
“Avoid as much as you can, in mixed companies, argumentative, polemical conversations; which, though they should not, yet certainly do, indispose for a time the contending parties toward each other; and, if the controversy grows warm and noisy, endeavor to put an end to it by some genteel levity or joke.”
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
““What circumstances can possibly indispose you to give your law business to Mr. Darch?””
“Grace comes to alter our natural dispositions, that are unsuited to love, and indispose us for it.”
“It is possible, that in my own country, these strictures might produce an irritation, which would indispose the people towards (one of) the two great objects I have in view; that is, the emancipation of their slaves.”
“Nor ought the humble condition of the oppressed to indispose him to grant them a hearing; for the doctrine they professed was not their own, but that of the Almighty himself.”
“Lents, and weekly Fasts, indispose if they do not disable their labouring Poor to Work as much as their Wants require; the spiritual”
“It is possible that, in my own country, these strictures might produce an irritation which would indispose the people toward the two great objects I have in view; that is, the emancipation of their slaves, and the settlement of their constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.”
“Brigade of Infantry as it issued, about 10 a.m., from among the trees of Les Amusoires, may have been a moral factor in itself sufficient to indispose the German outposts to remain longer upon the outskirts of”
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
“Indeed, at or near this time there were three particular occurrences which, when taken together, might well disturb the serenity and cheerfulness of her mind, and indispose her for writing -- especially writing of a humorous character.”
“It is matter of familiar remark that the tendency of warm climates is to relax the human constitution and indispose to labor.”
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