indispose

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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

But there is one thing that cannot be admitted, and that is your statement that the constitution of man is in a "warped, impaired, and dislocated condition," and that "these deformities indispose men to belief."

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Its tendency was to produce in the minds of Gypsies, disaffection to the state, and to indispose others from aiding in the execution of the edict. 

From A Historical Survey of the Customs, Habits, & Present State of the Gypsies by Hoyland, John

Nor ought the humble condition of the oppressed to indispose him to grant them a hearing; for the doctrine they professed was not their own, but that of the Almighty himself.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn