All 25 Uses of

dispose

in

Mansfield Park

A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)

dispose = create a tendency or mood to do something

"I hope she will prove a well-disposed girl," continued Mrs. Norris, "and be sensible of her uncommon good fortune in having such friends."
Chpt 1 (definition 1)

well-disposed = with a positive or cooperative attitude

Mrs. Price seemed rather surprised that a girl should be fixed on, when she had so many fine boys, but accepted the offer most thankfully, assuring them of her daughter's being a very well-disposed, good-humoured girl, and trusting they would never have cause to throw her off.
Chpt 1 (definition 1)

Amid the cares and the complacency which his own children suggested, Sir Thomas did not forget to do what he could for the children of Mrs. Price: he assisted her liberally in the education and disposal of her sons as they became old enough for a determinate pursuit;
Chpt 2 (definition 2)

disposal = position in careers

But Tom's extravagance had, previous to that event, been so great as to render a different disposal of the next presentation necessary, and the younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.
Chpt 3 (definition 3) *

disposal = settlement of what was to be done

They were relieved by it from all restraint; and without aiming at one gratification that would probably have been forbidden by Sir Thomas, they felt themselves immediately at their own disposal, and to have every indulgence within their reach.
Chpt 3 (definition 2)

disposal = command

"My dear sister," said Mary, "if you can persuade him into anything of the sort, it will be a fresh matter of delight to me to find myself allied to anybody so clever, and I shall only regret that you have not half a dozen daughters to dispose of."
Chpt 4 (definition 2) *

dispose = settle in life

Edmund was sorry to hear Miss Crawford, whom he was much disposed to admire, speak so freely of her uncle.
Chpt 6 (definition 1)

disposed = inclined (with a tendency to)

A successful scheme of this sort generally brings on another; and the having been to Mansfield Common disposed them all for going somewhere else the day after.
Chpt 7 (definition 1)

disposed = inclined (motivated)

"Perhaps," said Tom, "Fanny may be more disposed to oblige us now."
Chpt 17 (definition 1) *

disposed = inclined (in favor)

Tom understood his father's thoughts, and heartily wishing he might be always as well disposed to give them but partial expression, began to see, more clearly than he had ever done before, that there might be some ground of offence, that there might be some reason for the glance his father gave towards the ceiling and stucco of the room; and that when he inquired with mild gravity after the fate of the billiard-table, he was not proceeding beyond a very allowable curiosity.
Chpt 19 (definition 1)

disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)

He is not a shining character, but he has a thousand good qualities; and is so disposed to look up to you, that I am quite laughed at about it, for everybody considers it as my doing.
Chpt 20 (definition 1)

"Oh! don't talk so, don't talk so," cried Fanny, distressed by more feelings than he was aware of; but seeing that she was distressed, he had done with the subject, and only added more seriously— "Your uncle is disposed to be pleased with you in every respect; and I only wish you would talk to him more."
Chpt 21 (definition 1)

A well-disposed young woman, who did not marry for love, was in general but the more attached to her own family; and the nearness of Sotherton to Mansfield must naturally hold out the greatest temptation, and would, in all probability, be a continual supply of the most amiable and innocent enjoyments.
Chpt 21 (definition 1)

well-disposed = with a positive or cooperative attitude

I think if we had had the disposal of events—if Mansfield Park had had the government of the winds just for a week or two, about the equinox, there would have been a difference. Not that we would have endangered his safety by any tremendous weather--but only by a steady contrary wind, or a calm.
Chpt 23 (definition 2)

disposal = control (ability to arrange)

A very few days were enough to effect this; and at the end of those few days, circumstances arose which had a tendency rather to forward his views of pleasing her, inasmuch as they gave her a degree of happiness which must dispose her to be pleased with everybody.
Chpt 24 (definition 1)

dispose = incline (create a tendency for)

Mrs. Norris was beginning an eager assurance of the affability he might depend on, when she was stopped by Sir Thomas's saying with authority, "I do not advise your going to Brighton, William, as I trust you may soon have more convenient opportunities of meeting; but my daughters would be happy to see their cousins anywhere; and you will find Mr. Rushworth most sincerely disposed to regard all the connexions of our family as his own."
Chpt 25 (definition 1)

disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)

Young, pretty, and gentle, however, she had no awkwardnesses that were not as good as graces, and there were few persons present that were not disposed to praise her.
Chpt 28 (definition 1)

On the contrary, she was so totally unused to have her pleasure consulted, or to have anything take place at all in the way she could desire, that she was more disposed to wonder and rejoice in having carried her point so far, than to repine at the counteraction which followed.
Chpt 28 (definition 1)

That a girl of fourteen, acting only on her own unassisted reason, should err in the method of reform, was not wonderful; and Fanny soon became more disposed to admire the natural light of the mind which could so early distinguish justly, than to censure severely the faults of conduct to which it led.
Chpt 40 (definition 1)

The conclusion of the two gentlemen's civilities was an offer of Mr. Price's to take Mr. Crawford into the dockyard, which Mr. Crawford, desirous of accepting as a favour what was intended as such, though he had seen the dockyard again and again, and hoping to be so much the longer with Fanny, was very gratefully disposed to avail himself of, if the Miss Prices were not afraid of the fatigue;
Chpt 41 (definition 1)

Fanny was disposed to think the influence of London very much at war with all respectable attachments.
Chpt 45 (definition 1)

disposed = inclined (had a tendency)

Mr. Rushworth had been gone at this time to Bath, to pass a few days with his mother, and bring her back to town, and Maria was with these friends without any restraint, without even Julia; for Julia had removed from Wimpole Street two or three weeks before, on a visit to some relations of Sir Thomas; a removal which her father and mother were now disposed to attribute to some view of convenience on Mr. Yates's account.
Chpt 47 (definition 1)

disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors)

We were all disposed to wonder, but it seems to have been the merciful appointment of Providence that the heart which knew no guile should not suffer.
Chpt 47 (definition 1)

disposed = inclined (having a state of mind that favors doing something)

She was humble, and wishing to be forgiven; and Mr. Yates, desirous of being really received into the family, was disposed to look up to him and be guided.
Chpt 48 (definition 1)

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(1) (dispose as in: Is she disposed to help?)
inclined (with a tendency to; or in the mood to)

editor's notes: This is usually seen in the form "disposed to..." or "disposed toward..."

(2) (dispose as in: disposed the troops along...)
the arrangement, positioning, or use of things
editor's notes: This sense of dispose can be used in the form disposal to indicate that a person can use something as they wish -- as in:
- I am at your disposal.
- She has many assets at her disposal.

(3) (dispose as in: dispose of the matter)
to settle something so it no longer requires attention

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