indispose

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In fact, the anathema remained inefficacious within and without.313 In vain did the pope employ the Jesuits to raise or indispose the European courts against the Venetians.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

We indispose the French government, and they will retract their offer of the treaty of commerce.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

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

From Armadale by Collins, Wilkie

Such a proceeding would, he was convinced, by no means disincline others in different circumstances to accept hereditary titles, nor indispose the ministry to confer them.

From The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Yonge, Charles Duke

All his jealousy is actively alive to the smallest shade of fault, although his feelings so much indispose him to see any blemish.

From Autobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by Cooper, James Fenimore