Disposition vs Captious - What's the difference?
disposition | captious |
The arrangement or placement of certain things.
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, chapter=5, title= Tendency or inclination under given circumstances.
Temperamental makeup or habitual mood.
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Control over something.
(label) Transfer or relinquishment to the care or possession of another.
(label) Final decision or settlement.
(label) The destination of a patient after medical treatment such as surgery.
(label) The set of choirs of strings on a harpsichord.
(obsolete) That captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.
* 1605 , (William Shakespeare), :
* 1784 , (William Cowper), "A Review of Schools", in Poems , 1859 ed.,
* {{quote-book, 1815, date=March 24, chapter=To William Lisle Bowles, author=(Samuel Taylor Coleridge), pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=P98V-3-qzp0C&pg=PA558, page=558, edition=2000 Oxford ed., isbn=0198187459, title=Collected Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
, passage=Were you aware that in your discourse last Sunday you attributed the captious Problem of the Sadducees to the Pharisees, as a proof of the obscure and sensual doctrines of the latter? }}
Having a disposition to find fault unreasonably or to raise petty objections; cavilling, nitpicky
* 1968 , Sidney Monas, translating Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (1866):
* 2009 , Anne Karpf, The Guardian , 24 Jan 2009:
As a noun disposition
is the arrangement or placement of certain things.As a verb disposition
is to remove or place in a different position.As an adjective captious is
that captures; especially, (of an argument, words etc.) designed to capture or entrap in misleading arguments; sophistical.disposition
English
Noun
(en noun)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
- He was, indeed, a lad of a remarkable disposition ; sober, discreet, and pious beyond his age...
Derived terms
* dispositional * ambulatory disposition * disposition hearing * testamentary dispositioncaptious
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I know I loue in vaine, striue against hope: / Yet in this captious , and intemible Siue / I still poure in the waters of my loue / And lacke not to loose still.
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- A captious question, sir, and yours is one, / Deserves an answer similar, or none.
- But Peter Petrovich did not accept this retort. On the contrary, he became all the more captious and irritable, as though he were just hitting his stride.
- The "Our Bold" column, nitpicking at errors in other periodicals, can look merely captious , and its critics often seem to be wildly and collectively wrong-headed.