Verb

(dispos)

To eliminate or to get rid of something.

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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.

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*: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

Verb

(manag)

To direct or be in charge of.

To handle or control (a situation, job).

To handle with skill, wield (a tool, weapon etc.).

* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.

* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.ii:

The most vnruly, and the boldest boy, / That euer warlike weapons menaged [...].

To succeed at an attempt

* , chapter=7

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.}}

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-11-30, volume=409, issue=8864, magazine=(The Economist), author=Paul Davis

, title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}

To achieve without fuss, or without outside help.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Welcome to the plastisphere , passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}

To train (a horse) in the manege; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

(obsolete) To treat with care; to husband.

(Dryden)

(obsolete) To bring about; to contrive.

(Shakespeare)