indispose

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But the character of my informant indisposes me to disbelief.

From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew

And I find I can’t sleep so well on board as I used to do thirty years ago: and not to get one’s Sleep, you know, indisposes one more or less for the Day. 

From Letters of Edward FitzGerald in Two Volumes Vol. II by Wright, William Aldis

The dog that has been kindly treated in a particular house, seldom fails to visit it again; and when he is violently driven from another, the same principle indisposes him to return.

From A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by Gall, James

In some men, the passion to succeed is clogged by the fear of failure; in others, the sense of their greatness is self-sufficing and indisposes them to effort.

From Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

It indisposes men to be great at their maturity.

From Bebee by Ouida