Verb

(en verb)

(obsolete) To spread out, to unfurl.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:

The wearie Traueiler, wandring that way, / Therein did often quench his thristy heat, / And then by it his wearie limbes display , / Whiles creeping slomber made him to forget / His former paine [...].

To show conspicuously; to exhibit; to demonstrate; to manifest.

* , chapter=12

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* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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To make a display; to act as one making a show or demonstration.

(Shakespeare)

(military) To extend the front of (a column), bringing it into line.

(Farrow)

(printing, dated) To make conspicuous by using large or prominent type.

(obsolete) To discover; to descry.

* Chapman

And from his seat took pleasure to display / The city so adorned with towers.

Verb

(dispos)

To eliminate or to get rid of something.

:

To distribute and put in place.

*1600 , (William Shakespeare), , act 4, scene III

*:Now, dear soldiers, march away: / And how thou pleasest, God, dispose the day!

*1811 , (Jane Austen), (Sense and Sensibility) , chapter 6

*:Marianne’s pianoforte was unpacked and properly disposed of, and Elinor’s drawing were affixed to the walls of their sitting rooms.

*1934 , (Rex Stout), edition, ISBN 0553278193, page 47:

*:I sat down within three feet of the entrance door, and I had no sooner got disposed than the door opened and a man came in.

To deal out; to assign to a use.

*(John Evelyn) (1620-1706)

*:what he designed to bestow on her funeral, he would rather dispose among the poor

To incline.

: (Used here intransitively in the passive voice)

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:Endure and conquer; Jove will soon dispose / To future good our past and present woes.

*(Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)

*:Suspicions dispose kings to tyranny, husbands to jealousy, and wise men to irresolution and melancholy.

*

*:At twilight in the summeron the floor.

(lb) To bargain; to make terms.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:She had disposed with Caesar.

(lb) To regulate; to adjust; to settle; to determine.

*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)

*:the knightly forms of combat to dispose