All 6 Uses of
disposition
in
As You Like It
- 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
- My father's rough and envious disposition
Scene 1.2 *disposition = normal mood
- 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…†
Scene 2.4
- Good my complexion! 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
- …nimble in threats, approach'd The opening of his mouth; but suddenly, Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away Into a bush: under which bush's shade A lioness, with udders all drawn dry, Lay couching, head on ground, with cat-like watch, When that the sleeping man should stir; 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
Definition:
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(disposition as in: a kind disposition) someone's normal mood, personality, or typical way of behaving