Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of setting aside a sovereign or a public officer; deprivation of authority and dignity; displacement; removal.

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) That which is deposited; matter laid or thrown down; sediment; alluvial matter; as, banks are sometimes depositions of alluvial matter..

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) An opinion, example, or statement, laid down or asserted; a declaration..

Deposition :: Deposition (n.) The act of laying down one's testimony in writing; also, testimony laid or taken down in writing, under oath or affirmation, before some competent officer, and in reply to interrogatories and cross-interrogatories..

Discomposition :: Discomposition (n.) Inconsistency; discordance.

Disposition :: Disposition (n.) The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will..

Disposition :: Disposition (n.) The state or the manner of being disposed or arranged; distribution; arrangement; order; as, the disposition of the trees in an orchard; the disposition of the several parts of an edifice..

Disposition :: Disposition (n.) Tendency to any action or state resulting from natural constitution; nature; quality; as, a disposition in plants to grow in a direction upward; a disposition in bodies to putrefaction..

Disposition :: Disposition (n.) Conscious inclination; propension or propensity.

Disposition :: Disposition (n.) Natural or prevailing spirit, or temperament of mind, especially as shown in intercourse with one's fellow-men; temper of mind..

Disposition :: Disposition (n.) Mood; humor.

Dispositional :: Dispositional (a.) Pertaining to disposition.

Dispositioned :: Dispositioned (a.) Having (such) a disposition; -- used in compounds; as, well-dispositioned..

Dispositive :: Dispositive (a.) Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive.

Dispositive :: Dispositive (a.) Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency..

Dispositively :: Dispositively (adv.) In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition.

Electro-positive :: Electro-positive (a.) Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; -- the converse or correlative of electro-negative..

Electro-positive :: Electro-positive (a.) Hence: Positive; metallic; basic; -- distinguished from negative, nonmetallic, or acid..

Electro-positive :: Electro-positive (n.) A body which passes to the negative pole in electrolysis.

Exposition :: Exposition (n.) The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

Exposition :: Exposition (n.) The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary..

Exposition :: Exposition (n.) Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an easterly exposition; an exposition to the sun..

Exposition :: Exposition (n.) A public exhibition or show, as of industrial and artistic productions; as, the Paris Exposition of 1878..

Expositive :: Expositive (a.) Serving to explain; expository.

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of imposing, laying on, affixing, enjoining, inflicting, obtruding, and the like..

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) That which is imposed, levied, or enjoined; charge; burden; injunction; tax..

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) An extra exercise enjoined on students as a punishment.

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) An excessive, arbitrary, or unlawful exaction; hence, a trick or deception put on laid on others; cheating; fraud; delusion; imposture..

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act of laying on the hands as a religious ceremoy, in ordination, confirmation, etc..

Imposition :: Imposition (n.) The act or process of imosing pages or columns of type. See Impose, v. t., 4..

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