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Webster 1913 Edition
Indisposition
In-disˊpo-si′tion
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
indisposition
.] 1.
The state of being indisposed; disinclination;
as, the
. indisposition
of two substances to combineA general
indisposition
towards believing. Atterbury.
2.
A slight disorder or illness.
Rather as an
indisposition
in health than as any set sickness. Hayward.
Webster 1828 Edition
Indisposition
INDISPOSI'TION
, n.1.
Disinclination; aversion; unwillingness; dislike; as the indisposition of men to submit to severe discipline; an indisposition to abandon vicious practices. A general indisposition towards believing.
2.
Slight disorder of the healthy functions of the body; tendency to disease. Indisposition is a slight defect of healthy action in bodily functions, rather than settled or marked disease.3.
Want of tendency or natural appetency or affinity; as the indisposition of two substances to combine.Definition 2024
indisposition
indisposition
English
Noun
indisposition (plural indispositions)
- A mild illness, the state of being indisposed.
- 1751, Henry Fielding, Amelia
- I was scarce sooner recovered from my indisposition than Amelia herself fell ill.
- 1751, Henry Fielding, Amelia
- A state of not being disposed to do something; disinclination; unwillingness.
- 1989, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Pullen, Principles of Political Economy (volume 2, page 435)
- He argued that the progress of wealth could be impeded not only by an indisposition to produce, but also by an indisposition to consume […]
- 1989, Thomas Robert Malthus, John Pullen, Principles of Political Economy (volume 2, page 435)
- A bad mood or disposition.
- 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays
- Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
- 1597, Francis Bacon, Essays
Translations
mild illness
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