indisposition

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

INDISPOSI'TION, noun 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.
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