The act of depositing or deposing; the act of laying down or thrown down; precipitation.
The act of bringing before the mind; presentation.
The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.
That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter.
An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration.
The act of laying down one’s testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories.
The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man’s property by will.
The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice.
Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction.
Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.
Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one’s fellow-men; temper of mind.