All 8 Uses of
dispose
in
Of Human Bondage
- The masters, graduates of Oxford or Cambridge, were ordained and unmarried; if by chance they wished to marry they could only do so by accepting one of the smaller livings at the disposal of the Chapter; but for many years none of them had cared to leave the refined society of Tercanbury, which owing to the cavalry depot had a martial as well as an ecclesiastical tone, for the monotony of life in a country rectory; and they were now all men of middle age.
Chpt 15-16disposal = command
- When Dr. Fleming was thus disposed of it became necessary to find a successor.†
Chpt 15-16
- Another fellow, Norton, could not go to Oxford unless he got one of the scholarships at the disposal of the school.
Chpt 21-22 *disposal = command
- He disposed of his rooms in Clement's Inn and went to Italy.†
Chpt 25-26 *
- Mr. Goodworthy had seemed pleasantly disposed to Philip since their trip to Paris, and now that Philip knew he was so soon to be free, he could look upon the funny little man with tolerance.†
Chpt 37-38
- She felt more kindly disposed to Philip than ever before, and the unaccustomed tenderness in her eyes filled him with joy.†
Chpt 59-60
- It warmed the blood and cleared the head; it filled the soul with well-being; it disposed the mind at once to utter wit and to appreciate the wit of others; it had the vagueness of music and the precision of mathematics.†
Chpt 67-68
- The proud merely wished to be left alone, but the majority looked upon the well-to-do as people to be exploited; they knew what to say in order to get such advantages as the charitable put at their disposal, and they accepted benefits as a right which came to them from the folly of their superiors and their own astuteness.
Chpt 113-114disposal = command
Definitions:
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(dispose as in: disposed the troops along...) the arrangement, positioning, or use of thingseditor'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.
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(dispose as in: dispose of the waste) to throw away