All 6 Uses
disposition
in
As You Like It
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- My father's rough and envious disposition
Scene 1.2 *disposition = normal mood
- I am given, sir, secretly to understand that your younger brother, Orlando, hath a disposition to come in disguis'd against me to try a fall.†
Scene 1.1
- Fair sir, I pity her, And wish, for her sake more than for mine own, My fortunes were more able to relieve her: But I am shepherd to another man, And do not shear the fleeces that I graze: My master is of churlish disposition, And little recks to find the way to heaven By doing deeds of hospitality: Besides, his cote, his flocks, and bounds of feed, Are now on sale; and at our sheepcote now, By reason of his absence, there is nothing That you will feed on; but what is, come see, And in my voice most welcome shall you be.†
Scene 2.4
- dost thou think, though I am caparisoned like a man, I have a doublet and hose in my disposition?†
Scene 3.2
- But come, now I will be your Rosalind in a more coming-on disposition; and ask me what you will, I will grant it.†
Scene 4.1
- for 'tis The royal disposition of that beast To prey on nothing that doth seem as dead: This seen, Orlando did approach the man, And found it was his brother, his elder brother.†
Scene 4.3
Definitions:
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(1)
(disposition as in: a kind disposition) someone's personality, nature, or typical way of behaving
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(2)
(disposition as in: disposition of the matter) the decision or action taken when an issue was settled so that it no longer requires attention
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(3)
(disposition as in: disposition of the assets) the giving, selling, or transferring of something to another
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(4)
(disposition as in: strategic troop disposition) the arrangement, positioning, or use of things
- (5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)