indispose

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This reflection tended to repress the inclination he would otherwise have felt for cultivating her society, but it did not indispose him to benefit her in a certain way.

From Ormond, Volume II (of 3) or, The Secret Witness by Brown, Charles Brockden

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

May not some persons even entertain the apprehension, that it will indispose them to such pursuits?

From Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin by James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

But I am afraid it will indispose her to ask any favors of Mr. Keller, or to associate herself with his personal concerns.

From Jezebel's Daughter by Collins, Wilkie

The cause in which this document was written will indispose the candid reader to any criticism of its somewhat exuberant language.

From White Slavery in the Barbary States by Sumner, Charles