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undiˈsposed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8, 8 c, 5 b.]
†1. Unfitted; unprepared; unqualified. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 191 To maken men wery & vndisposid to studie goddis lawe. 1421Hoccleve Min. Poems xxiii. 546 He mischeeueth Where as he wende han recouered be; Vndisposid to dye, sterueth he. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. v. 308 If eny man be..vndisposid vnscapabili, lete him abstene and forbere that he come not into prelacie endewid.
†2. Disordered; out of condition. Obs.
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 104 Þus þis lond is undisposid bi þree enemyes of a man. Ibid. II. 348 Man þat þus contrarieþ himsilf mut nedis be undisposid bi synne. 1599Davies Immort. Soul ii. ccclxxvii, The Soule to such a body knit, Whose inward senses vndisposed bee. 1645Quarles Sol. Recant. xii. 6 Then shall the sinews silver cord be los'd..: The undispos'd And idle liver's ruby fountain dri'd.
†3. Of death: For which one is not prepared.
1421Hoccleve Min. Poems xxiii. 474 Lest þat heere-aftir y..In-to lyke peril haaste may and hye Of vndisposid sodein deeth. c1425Orolog. Sapient. v. in Anglia X. 359/23, I wepe for þe harmes of vndisposed dethe.
†4. Ill-disposed; unfriendly; adverse. Obs.
1456Rolls of Parlt. V. 451/1 Your said Besecher, by the untrewe synfull procuryng of the said undisposed persones,..was endited of Treason. 1472Coventry Leet Bk. 384 If eny mysdoers, or persones vndisposid, be the occasion of eny supportacion. 1621Quarles Div. Poems, Esther xvii, Some curse Fate, Others blaspheme the name of heau'n, and rate Their vndisposed Starres.
5. Not disposed of; not put to any purpose.
1483Rolls of Parlt. VI. 260/2 The residue of the said money, goodes, and catalles..undistributed and undisposed. 1653Hartlib Discov. Divis. Land (title-p.), The Fens and other Waste and undisposed Places in England and Ireland. 1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4946/3 The several Quantities of Tin..remaining undisposed. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. xviii. II. 770 The house took care..to prevent the recurrence of an undisposed surplus.
b. With of. (Now usual; cf. dispose v. 8.)
1626B. Jonson Staple of N. i. ii, Emissarie Westminster's vndispos'd of yet. 1667in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. V. 29 Other lands undisposed of, now remaining in his Majestie's disposall. 1743Pope Last Will Wks. 1751 IX. 270 All the residue and remainder to be considered as undisposed of, and to go to my next of kin. 1803tr. P. Le Brun's M. Botte III. 124 That preference which would have made him..choose her, if her heart had been undisposed of. 1893Bailey's Mag. Oct. 282/2 Finding himself with some undisposed-of stock.
6. Not inclined or willing, indisposed (to or to do something).
1590Shakes. Com. Err. i. ii. 80, I shall breake that merrie sconce of yours That stands on tricks, when I am vndispos'd. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxviii. §10 Because the greater part is carelesse and vndisposed to ioine with them. 1650Baxter Saints' R. i. vii. (1662) 86 That I conceive the reason also, why we are more undisposed to those secret duties.
Hence undiˈsposedness.
1600Surflet Countrie Farme iii. xxxviii. 504 There hapneth..vnto it [sc. the plum-tree] an vndisposednes, through the fault of the gardener. 1658A. Fox tr. Würtz' Surg. ii. xii. 95 A rottenness, which you may know by the Patients breath,..and his daily undisposedness. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. ii. i. 114 Can no man,..notwithstanding the undisposedness of his Will, yet so far..prevail against his undisposedness, as [etc.]? |
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