Definition of "indispose" [in•dis•pose]

• To make averse; disincline. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to be or feel ill; sicken. (verb-transitive)
• To render unfit; disqualify. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Avoid as much as you can, in mixed companies, argumentative, polemical conversations; which, though they should not, yet certainly do, indispose for a time the contending parties toward each other; and, if the controversy grows warm and noisy, endeavor to put an end to it by some genteel levity or joke."
• "“What circumstances can possibly indispose you to give your law business to Mr. Darch?”"
• "Grace comes to alter our natural dispositions, that are unsuited to love, and indispose us for it."