Disposer

One who disposes; a distributor; a be stower; a director: a regulator. "God... is the absolute disposer of all things."-South. Dispos'ingly, adv . In a manner to dispose, regulate, or place in order. Disposition, ( dis - po - zish'un ,) n. [Fr., from Lat. dis positio .] Act of disposing; disposal; application; as, disposition of one's estate. - Manner in which things, or the parts of a complex body, are disposed, placed, or arranged; adjustment; regulation; arrangement; distribution; order; method; as, the disposition of troops in a proper manner. Adaptation; natural fitne or tendency of qualities or parts. "Disposition is where the power and ability of doing anything is forward."- Locke. -Temper or natural constitution of the mind; temper or frame of mind; predisposition; inclination; humor; temperament. "I have suffered more. than the villanous inconstancy of man's disposition is able to bear."- Shaks . -Acquired tendency or propensity of mind, temper, or character; as, a disposition to act fairly. ( Arch . ) One of the six e entials of the art. It is the arrangement of the whole design by means of the ich nography (plan), orthography (section and elevation), and scenography (perspective view); and differs from distribution , which signifies the particular arrangement of the internal parts of a building. ( Mus .) A term used in organ-building, adopted from the German, meaning the arrangement and combination of the stops on the different rows of keys and pedals, with the pitch of each stop, or length of the lowest CC pipe. ( Logic .) That operation of the mind whereby we put the ideas, propositions, or arguments which we have formed concerning a subject, in the order fittest to gain a clear knowledge of it, to retain it in the memory, or to explain it to others. ( Rhet .) The due placing or ranging the several parts of a speech or discourse. The logician is tied down to a certain prescribed form in his mode of reasoning; the rhetorician adopts that mode which seems most convenient to him. "A discourse," says Quintilian, "that wants disposition must nece arily be confused and without connection, liable to frequent tautologies and omi ions, and, like one wandering in the dark, be conducted by chance rather than design." - See ORATORY.