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Predispose v. t. (past & past part. predisposed; pres. part. predisposing)

To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship.

To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease.

Predisposing causes (Med.), causes which render the body liable to disease; predisponent causes.

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... the nutritive materials that they contain. Some of them are eaten cooked, while others are usually consumed in a raw state. They are all much less indigestible if eaten when quite young and fresh—drying seemingly having the effect of producing alterations in them that predispose to dyspeptic disturbances in ...

— Health on the Farm - A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene • H. F. Harris

... soon evident, from certain remarks made by the Coroner, that the theory which Archdale had put forward at the club in Bryce's hearing the previous day had gained favour with the authorities, and that the visit of the jurymen to the scene of the disaster had been intended by the Coroner to predispose them in behalf of it. And now Archdale himself, as representing the architects who held a retaining fee in connection with the Cathedral, was called to give his opinion—and he gave it in almost the same words which Bryce had heard him use twenty-four hours previously. ...

— The Paradise Mystery • J. S. Fletcher

... so immediately susceptible to the idea of a World Revolution. Victory hath its charms and does not predispose a people to complain; so where the Masses (invested with a capital "M" to flatter their vanity and secure their goodwill) were victorious and content they were to be made to believe by advertisement that with a little trouble ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, November 3, 1920 • Various

... show her hand upon the temperance question? The occasional mention of wine, brandy, etc., in her cookery-books, and her silence upon a subject of such vital moment to humanity, may predispose many to doubt her soundness as to the apostle's injunction to be 'temperate ...

— The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) • Marion Harland

Words linked to "Predispose" : predisposition