predispose
verb (used with object)
to give an inclination or tendency to beforehand; make susceptible.
had predisposed
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past perfectof predispose.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He was young and susceptible; and the excited state of his feelings, from wandering among the abodes of departed grace and gallantry, had predisposed him for a sudden impression from female beauty.
From Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving
My morning's experience of Miss Halcombe had predisposed me to be pleased with everybody in the house; but my sympathies shut themselves up resolutely at the first sight of Mr. Fairlie.
From The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
He remembers that portrait on the wall at Albuquerque, and how it had predisposed him in favour of the original.
From The Lone Ranche by Mayne Reid
The extreme dejection of spirits, consequent upon her persecuted loneliness, had predisposed her to disease in the first place, and aggravated its character when it came.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 13, November, 1858 by Various
It was her memory of these occasions that had predisposed her to the mad suspicion which wrecked her.
From Fenwick's Career by Mrs. Humphry Ward
