Crossword-Solution: DISPOSES 8 letters, 8 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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"Man proposes, God ____" 1 answer
"Man proposes, but God --" 1 answer
Arranges (matters). 1 answer
Criticize a modeling shoot array? 1 answer
Throws away, with "of" 1 answer
Tosses, with "of" 1 answer
Inclines 15 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CMEZAE
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eruption
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Sentences with DISPOSES (5)

Our pity, Oedipus, thou needs must move, Thou and these maidens; and the stronger plea Thou urgest, as the savior of our land, Disposes me to counsel for thy weal.
The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000
And that it _did_ exist was an undeniable fact; and, with that tendency which disposes the human mind in favour of the marvellous, we can understand the excitement produced in the entire world by this supernatural apparition.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994
Such are the visions that fade away -- Man proposes and God disposes; Look in the glass and I see to-day Only an old man, worn and grey, Bending his head to a bunch of roses.
The Man from Snowy River Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson 1995
And while he will then be free to spend that salary, great or little, on his own private pleasures, the rest of his fortune he but holds and disposes under trust for mankind; it is not his, because he has not earned it; it cannot be his, because his services have already been paid; but year by year it is his to distribute, whether to help individuals whose birthright and outfit have been swallowed up in his, or to further public works and institutions.
Lay Morals Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
MAN PROPOSES, BUT GOD DISPOSES A week passed, and another Sunday came,--a Sunday so still and hot and moist that steam seemed to rise from the heavy trees,--an idle day for master and servant alike.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1995

Quotes with DISPOSES (3)

The spirit of bondage works by fear for the slave fears the rod: but love cries, Abba, Father; it disposes us to go to God, and behave ourselves towards God as children; and it gives us clear evidence of our union to God as His children, and so casts out fear. So that it appears that the witness of the Spirit the apostle speaks of, is far from being any whisper, or immediate suggestion or revelation; but that gracious holy effect of the Spirit of God in the hearts of the sain…
Jonathan Edwards The Religious Affections
A woman's situation, i.e those meanings derived from the total context in which she comes to maturity, disposes her to apprehend her body not as instrument of her transcendence, but "an object destined for another.
Simone de Beauvoir The Second Sex
Now we have come full circle to the subtitle of this book: children learn by unlearning other languages. Viewed in the Darwinian light, all humanly possible grammars compete to match the language spoken in the child's environment. And fitness, because we have competition, can be measured by the compatibility of a grammar with what a child hears in a particular linguistic environment. This theory of language takes both nature and nurture into account: nature proposes, and nurture disposes.
Charles Yang The Infinite Gift: How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT.

Used 7 times in crossword archives (1965–2023).