Indispose
[,indis'pәuz]
Definition
(verb.) cause to feel unwell; 'She was indisposed'.
(verb.) make unwilling.
Typist: Sonia--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To render unfit or unsuited; to disqualify.
(v. t.) To disorder slightly as regards health; to make somewhat.
(v. t.) To disincline; to render averse or unfavorable; as, a love of pleasure indisposes the mind to severe study; the pride and selfishness of men indispose them to religious duties.
Checked by Curtis
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Disincline, render averse, make unfavorable.
Typist: Paul
Definition
v.t. to render indisposed averse or unfit.—pa.p. and adj. Indisposed′ averse: slightly disordered in health.—ns. Indispos′edness Indisposi′tion state of being indisposed: disinclination: slight illness.
Edited by Barrett
Examples
- No class will abolish itself, materially alter its way of living, or drastically reconstruct itself, albeit no class is indisposed to co-operate in the unlimited socialization of any other class. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Herself, said Will, not indisposed to provoke the charming Mrs. Lydgate. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She has been indisposed all day, and we have persuaded her to go to bed. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Mr. Glauber went home seriously indisposed at his rebuff, took a cooling draught, and is now quite cured. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She sat still, looking a little contumacious, and very much indisposed to stir. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Mrs. Jenkinson was chiefly employed in watching how little Miss de Bourgh ate, pressing her to try some other dish, and fearing she was indisposed. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- But if I only knew of some good doctor, I would go this afternoon, and ask him to come, for I am sure mamma is seriously indisposed. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Editor: William