dispositions

Example Sentences

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He opened AquaGreen Dispositions in South Holland, Ill., in September 2012, about a year after the state legalized the process.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017

The 'Hum-Drum' Club, of which I was formerly an unworthy Member, was made up of very honest Gentlemen, of peaceable Dispositions, that used to sit together, smoak their Pipes, and say nothing 'till Midnight.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

By the same Principle, a Sponge sucks in Water, and the Glands in the Bodies of Animals, according to their several Natures and Dispositions, suck in various Juices from the Blood.

From Opticks or, a Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Newton, Isaac, Sir

He not tempted Saul only, but possessed him with an evil Spirit, by which he was left to wayward Dispositions, and was forced to have it fiddl’d out of him with a Minstrel.

From The History of the Devil As Well Ancient as Modern: In Two Parts by Defoe, Daniel

This I only offer as an early Instance of our different Dispositions.

From A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope by Cibber, Colley