DIS 
DISPLANTING, among nibs i is the plucking up 
of a tree or plant out of the ground 
Disp LantTinG /eoop, an inftrumest for taking up plants, 
with earth about their roots 
DISPLAYED, m Heralles, is underftood of the pofi- 
tion of an eagle, or other bird, when it -is ereét, with its 
wings expanded, or {pread fort 
DISPONDEE, in the Gre ue and Latin Poetry. a dou- 
ble {pond ee; or a foot confifting of four long fyllables: as 
juraménitim, dele@anté, Jaupelujaw, 
candies Cai in He Geography, a deferted = 
of Triphylia, e~aclon, whole inhabitants, in t 
time of Strabo, had emigrated to Epidamnus and Apolinis, 
a town of [llyria. 
DISPOSIT ION, from dis, and pono, I place, in Archi- 
tefture, is the juft placing of all the feveral parts of an edi- 
ce, according to their proper nature and office. Sce 
UILDIN 
Disro OSITION, in Logic, is that operation of the mind, 
arguments 
to — it longeft, and to explain 
the effec of this is called method. Watt's 
aie: 
Disposition, ina Miléary pice is the arrangement 
army or body of men upon moft a sav azeou 
ground, and in the beft fituation Me a vigorows attack or 
defen 
“Disrosirion, in Phyfiology, denotes a ftate of mind dif- 
n from another and inherent in the con- 
of the different difpofitions of the m 
in fome cafes owing to thofe iced powers of the prin- 
ciples of ation, which have a natural affinity, and are 
to accompany one another; fometimes to accidents 
body may have - eae on the difpofition of the mind. 
At one time the of the mind, like a ferene unclouded 
fky, fhews every thing in the moi agreeable Iighi; then a 
may is prone to benevoience, Pale sees and every kind af- 
feGtion ; unfufpicious, not it cally provoke "he poets have 
Kr ow to 
improve them to ay their ends. TH is dXpofition is 
commonly called ‘ good humour,” of which, in the fair 
fex, Mr. Pope a 
«¢ Good humour only teaches charms to laft 
Sul] makes new conquelts, and maintains the pal.” 
There is no difpofition more comfortable to the perfon ee 
contentment, ympa 
prefents every objeét in the moft favourable light, it inclines 
This happy difpofi- 
when it (ri rings from this root, it is a 
The oppofite difpofition, are 
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adminiftration ; an 
habitual fentiment of piety. 
DIS 
ed ‘¢bad humour,” has a contrary influence ; an influence 
as malignant as the other is falucar Ip tinges every cbject 
with its own difmsl colour, and hike apart that is gailed, 
it is hurt by every thing that touches ir, It takes offence 
where rone wes intended, and difpofes to difccntent, j<ra~ 
loufy, envy, and, i eneral, to malevolence 
There are ae, oppolite difp: fitions, which are “ela. 
it arifes from a juft fenfe of the dignity of our nature, is true 
ie cla ek and dif{pofes a man to the noblett virtues, and 
the moft heroic aétions and enterprifes. When it arifes from 
a confcioofaels of our worth and integrity, it may be called 
d ex xcelle ent, and con- 
a vain opinion of our poffc fling talents or worth, whic 
ot belong to us, or from an un‘ue e ae of the, value of 
ioe we actually poffcfs, it is pride, and produces arrogance, 
contempt of: othcrs, felf-partiality, an a vicious {elf-love, 
Deprefiion, on the other hand, proceeding from a juft fenfe 
f the weaknefs and imperfection ature, and 
f our own perfonal defedis and faults, is i humility, 
which is a pean ies — err oo nim But i 
and debilitates the 
inions; and at other times our splice 
Me confiderable asia either to elevate, or deprefs ie 
where no melancholy attends thim. (Retd’s. 
Effayso ont ‘ite AQive Poucael Man, Eff. ni. ch. 7-) The 
difpofition, or original bent of the mind, which tends to form, 
or »pon which is grafted, the habitual temper and difcrimi~ 
nating charaGer, is fometimes called profenfity, which, uled 
more ‘generally, includes principle, as well as difpofition. 
Disposition, in Rhetoric, is defined, by Cicero, he act 
of diflributing things, or arguments, ceed, or found 
out, into a proper order ; or, a due placing, or ranging the 
feveral parts of {peech, or difcourfe. 
Difpofition in oratory differs from that operation of the 
mind which is {o called by logicians. The logician fo places 
the feveral propofitions of a fyllogif{m in a carn prefcribed 
method, that the relation between the terms 3 may be evident, 
and the conclufion appear to be fairly drawn from the pre- 
mifes. And if either of the premifes feems weak, or the 
truth of it not fufficiently clear, be fupports it by 2 frefh 
s& and unifo 
feems to him molt convenient: 
fometim 
re ae evidence eae var el bef 
other; and drops any which he thinks fufficiently 
ipa iene as well as their inftru@ion. Behe he conten 
a frame and rua ure of his whole d: {courle, and as his 
w is not every where the fame, he divides it into certain 
a na fo maaan each of them, as a beft anfwer his 
intention. Il which it appears, that difpotition, 
confidered as a er of oratory, is widely different from that 
which logic teaches, ; 
Difpofitien 
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