These are the meanings of the letters PREDISPONES when you unscramble them.
- Depression (n.)
A falling in of the surface; a sinking below its true place; a cavity or hollow; as, roughness consists in little protuberances and depressions.
- Depression (n.)
A method of operating for cataract; couching. See Couch, v. t., 8.
- Depression (n.)
Dejection; despondency; lowness.
- Depression (n.)
Diminution, as of trade, etc.; inactivity; dullness.
- Depression (n.)
Humiliation; abasement, as of pride.
- Depression (n.)
The act of depressing.
- Depression (n.)
The angular distance of a celestial object below the horizon.
- Depression (n.)
The operation of reducing to a lower degree; -- said of equations.
- Depression (n.)
The state of being depressed; a sinking.
- Predispose (v. t.)
To dispose or incline beforehand; to give a predisposition or bias to; as, to predispose the mind to friendship.
- Predispose (v. t.)
To make fit or susceptible beforehand; to give a tendency to; as, debility predisposes the body to disease.