indispose

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"Yass'm," persisted the waiter, "he dah now, in bed; slightly indispose'."

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington

The path now became steep and rather difficult; so much so, indeed, as to indispose them all to conversation.

From Home as Found by Cooper, James Fenimore

Still I do believe that time and history, and national pride, and Swiss morgue, have brought about a state of feeling that would indispose them to bow down to a Swiss sovereign.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore

Nor ought the humble condition of the oppressed to indispose him to grant them a hearing; for the doctrine they professed was not their own, but that of the Almighty himself.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Baird, Henry Martyn

Years and infirmities may indispose him to enter on a mighty war; but he thinks more of his dynasty than of himself, his ambition being to found a reigning house.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 by Various