† 1. Unfitted; unprepared; unqualified. Obs.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 191. To maken men wery & vndisposid to studie goddis lawe.
1421. Hoccleve, Min. Poems, xxiii. 546. He mischeeueth Where as he wende han recouered be; Vndisposid to dye, sterueth he.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. v. 308. If eny man be … vndisposid vnscapabili, lete him abstene and forbere that he come not into prelacie endewid.
† 2. Disordered; out of condition. Obs.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., I. 104. Þus þis lond is undisposid bi þree enemyes of a man. Ibid., II. 348. Man þat þus contrarieþ himsilf mut nedis be undisposid bi synne.
1599. Davies, Immort. Soul, II. ccclxxvii. The Soule to such a body knit, Whose inward senses vndisposed bee.
1645. Quarles, Sol. Recant., xii. 6. Then shall the sinews silver cord be los’d…: The undispos’d And idle liver’s ruby fountain dri’d.
† 3. Of death: For which one is not prepared.
1421. Hoccleve, Min. Poems, xxiii. 474. Lest þat heere-aftir y … In-to lyke peril haaste may and hye Of vndisposid sodein deeth.
c. 1425. Orolog. Sapient., v., in Anglia, X. 359/23. I wepe for þe harmes of vndisposed dethe.
† 4. Ill-disposed; unfriendly; adverse. Obs.
1456. Rolls of Parlt., V. 451/1. Your said Besecher, by the untrewe synfull procuryng of the said undisposed persones,… was endited of Treason.
1472. Coventry Leet Bk., 384. If eny mysdoers, or persones vndisposid, be the occasion of eny supportacion.
1621. Quarles, Div. Poems, Esther, xvii. Some curse Fate, Others blaspheme the name of heau’n, and rate Their vndisposed Starres.
5. Not disposed of; not put to any purpose.
1483. Rolls of Parlt., VI. 260/2. The residue of the said money, goodes, and catalles … undistributed and undisposed.
1653. Hartlib, Discov. Divis. Land (title-p.), The Fens and other Waste and undisposed Places in England and Ireland.
1711. Lond. Gaz., No. 4946/3. The several Quantities of Tin … remaining undisposed.
1827. Hallam, Const. Hist., xviii. II. 770. The house took care … to prevent the recurrence of an undisposed surplus.
b. With of. (Now usual; cf. DISPOSE v. 8.)
1626. B. Jonson, Staple of N., I. ii. Emissarie Westminster’s vndispos’d of yet.
1667. in 10th Reg. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. V. 29. Other lands undisposed of, now remaining in his Majestie’s disposall.
1743. Pope, Last Will, Wks. 1751, IX. 270. All the residue and remainder to be considered as undisposed of, and to go to my next of kin.
1803. trans. P. Le Brun’s M. Botte, III. 124. That preference which would have made him … choose her, if her heart had been undisposed of.
1893. Bailey’s Mag., Oct., 282/2. Finding himself with some undisposed-of stock.
6. Not inclined or willing, indisposed (to or to do something).
1590. Shaks., Com. Err., I. ii. 80. I shall breake that merrie sconce of yours That stands on tricks, when I am vndispos’d.
1597. Hooker, Eccl. Pol., V. lxviii. § 10. Because the greater part is carelesse and vndisposed to ioine with them.
1650. Baxter, Saints’ R., I. vii. (1662), 86. That I conceive the reason also, why we are more undisposed to those secret duties.
Hence Undisposedness.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, III. xxxviii. 504. There hapneth … vnto it [sc. the plum-tree] an vndisposednes, through the fault of the gardener.
1658. A. Fox, trans. Würtz’ Surg., II. xii. 95. A rottenness, which you may know by the Patients breath,… and his daily undisposedness.
1675. Baxter, Cath. Theol., II. I. 114. Can no man,… notwithstanding the undisposedness of his Will, yet so far … prevail against his undisposedness, as [etc.]?
