indispose

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"What circumstances can possibly indispose you to give your law business to Mr. Darch?"

From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie

A little more mirth than is needful will indispose us for prayer.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

The path now became steep and rather difficult; so much so, indeed, as to indispose them all to conversation.

From Home as Found by Cooper, James Fenimore

Still I do believe that time and history, and national pride, and Swiss morgue, have brought about a state of feeling that would indispose them to bow down to a Swiss sovereign.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

Your Majesty will see the necessity of at the same time not appearing to take too much the part of France, which might irritate and indispose.

From The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 1, 1837-1843 by Esher, Reginald Baliol Brett, Viscount