Etymologically, mood derives from the Old English which denoted military courage, but could also refer to a person's humour, temper, or disposition at a particular time.

she developed a peaches and cream complexion and a sunny disposition, and she asked for nothing more of life than that she be kept dry and comfortable and fed huge amounts of food at stated intervals and be carried to where she could watch activity going on around her.

Himself shrinking from the imposition on these communities of the franchise for the coloured people, his unyielding disposition in regard to matters involving no vital principle did much to bring it about.

The battle over disposition of People's Park resulted in a month-long occupation of Berkeley by the National Guard on orders of then-Governor Ronald Reagan.

Until the 1911 reform, the psalms were arranged according to a disposition dating from the 8th century, as follows: Psalms i .– cviii., with some omissions, were recited at Matins, twelve each day from Monday to Saturday, and eighteen on Sunday.

Although there have been tensions between citizens on both sides of the border, the two countries have worked to maintain stability and signed an agreement in November 1996 to establish a framework for negotiating the final disposition of citizens and property in the affected areas.

" He felt that " the well-known example of the Jews, with their strong disposition towards nervous and mental disorders, teaches us that their extraordinarily advanced domestication may eventually imprint clear marks on the race ".

No archdeacon, archpriest, provost, or dean shall bestow on another the care of souls or the prebends of a church without the decision or consent of the bishop ; indeed, as the sacred canons point out, the care of souls and the disposition of ecclesiastical property are vested in the authority of the bishop.

However, disposition of the ashes was delayed pending a judicial decision on permanent control of the estate.

The Ghost demands that Hamlet avenge him ; Hamlet agrees, swears his companions to secrecy, and tells them he intends to " put an antic disposition on " ( presumably to avert suspicion ).

Melville's roving disposition and a desire to support himself independently of family assistance led him to seek work as a surveyor on the Erie Canal.

As a sexual orientation, heterosexuality refers to " an enduring pattern of or disposition to experience sexual, affectionate, physical or romantic attractions to persons of the opposite sex "; it also refers to " an individual ’ s sense of personal and social identity based on those attractions, behaviors expressing them, and membership in a community of others who share them ".

Initially the division of the Arabic-speaking areas of the Ottoman Empire were to be divided by the Sykes-Picot Agreement ; however, the final disposition was at the San Remo conference of 1920, whose determinations on the mandates, their boundaries, purposes and organization was ratified by the League in 1921 and put into effect in 1922.

In coastal fish farms, overfeeding primarily leads to increased disposition of detritus on the seafloor ( potentially smothering seafloor dwelling invertebrates and altering the physical environment ), while in hatcheries and land-based farms, excess food goes to waste and can potentially impact the surrounding catchment and local coastal environment.

Virtue ethics focuses on the character of those who are acting, while both deontological ethics and consequentialism focus on the status of the action, rule, or disposition itself.

He showed an extraordinary disposition toward asceticism and solitude, and in 1239 retired to a solitary cavern on the mountain Morrone, whence his name.

Throughout history, the pessimistic disposition has had effects on all major areas of thinking.

This was due to the ongoing Yugoslav wars during the 1990s, which had prevented agreement being reached on the disposition of federal assets and liabilities, particularly the national debt.

This, however, poses a number of questions involving genetics: if evil is merely a consequence of our choosing to deviate from God's desired goodness, then genetic disposition of ' evil ' ( currently fictitious ) must surely be in God's plan and desire and thus cannot be blamed on Man.

The tax is often imposed based on a deemed disposition of all the individual's property.

Also, the two sides have signed a series of agreements on the final division and disposition of the former Soviet Black Sea Fleet that have helped to reduce tensions.

He argues that it's most prudent to give up straightforward maximizing and instead adopt a disposition of constrained maximization, according to which one resolves to cooperate with all similarly disposed persons and defect on the rest.

When Admiral Hermann Boehem sent Raeder a memo in late August saying that the disposition of the German fleet could only made sense if there was no general war, one of Raeder's aides, a Captain Fricke replied with the comment on the margin: " That is precisely the point!

Thus the contest was joined on the central issue which was to dominate all American history for the next dozen years, the disposition of the Territories.

" However, Freud went on to modify his position to the effect " that the majority of men are also far behind the masculine ideal and that all human individuals, as a result of their bisexual disposition and of cross-inheritance, combine in themselves both masculine and feminine characteristics.

The disposition of Essex, held by West Saxon kings since the days of Egbert, is unclear from the treaty, though, given Alfred ’ s political and military superiority, it would have been surprising if he had conceded any disputed territory to his new godson.

In Rabbinic Literature, the final disposition of the Ark is disputed.

As noted earlier, economy also refers to the Church's " handling " or " management " or " disposition " of various pastoral and disciplinary questions, problems, and issues.

He first attached himself to Alberoni, and after the fall of that minister he became the agent of Elizabeth Farnese, the restless and intriguing wife of Philip V. Though perfectly unscrupulous in money matters, and of a singularly vain and blustering disposition, he did understand commercial questions, and he had the merit of having pointed out that the poverty of Spain was mainly due to the neglect of its agriculture.

As questions remained about the disposition of her estate, and the " Förderverein Gutshaus Mahlsdorf e. V ." was concerned that her relatives could demand the return of her furniture, they yielded to these demands.

Synderesis, in scholastic moral philosophy, is the natural capacity or disposition ( habitus ) of the practical reason to apprehend intuitively the universal first principles of human action.

A Red Tory is an adherent of a particular political philosophy, tradition, and disposition in Canada somewhat similar to the High Tory tradition in the United Kingdom ; it is contrasted with " blue Tory ".

Xenocentrism has recently been used in social philosophy to describe a particular ethical disposition.

* Positive mental attitude-a philosophy of having an optimistic disposition in every situation

Positive mental attitude ( PMA ) is the philosophy that having an optimistic disposition in every situation in one's life attracts positive changes and increases achievement.

He said that their aspect was mild, disposition peaceful, and strength so great that in combat the Mastiff or Bulldog was far from being an equal to them.

Never quite losing his Devonshire accent, he was not only an amiable and original conversationalist but a friendly and generous host, so that Fanny Burney recorded in her diary that he had " a suavity of disposition that set everybody at their ease in his society ", and William Makepeace Thackeray believed " of all the polite men of that age, Joshua Reynolds was the finest gentleman.

The first written reference to the word, " tattoo " ( or Samoan " Tatau ") appears in the journal of Joseph Banks, the naturalist aboard Captain Cook's ship the HMS Endeavour: " I shall now mention the way they mark themselves indelibly, each of them is so marked by their humor or disposition ".

It is also traditionally a time for spring cleaning so that one's outward surroundings matches his inward disposition.

Josephus paraphrases the story more so, and speaks of Balaam as the best prophet of his time, but with a disposition ill adapted to resist temptation.

Those same men, when by base subjection and constraint they are brought under and kept down, turn aside from that noble disposition by which they formerly were inclined to virtue, to shake off and break that bond of servitude wherein they are so tyrannously enslaved ; for it is agreeable with the nature of man to long after things forbidden and to desire what is denied us.

< p > just as Plato was wont to say often to Xenocrates the philosopher, who had the reputation of being rather morose in his disposition, " My good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces ," so if Marius could have been persuaded to sacrifice to the Greek Muses and Graces, he would not have put the ugliest possible crown upon a most illustrious career in field and forum, nor have been driven by the blasts of passion, ill-timed ambition, and insatiable greed upon the shore of a most cruel and savage old age .</ p >

He wrote to Prevost's Adjutant General, My situation is most critical, not from anything the enemy can do, but from the disposition of the people – The Population, believe me is essentially bad – A full belief possesses them that this Province must inevitably succumb – This Prepossession is fatal to every exertion – Legislators, Magistrates, Militia Officers, all, have imbibed the idea, and are so sluggish and indifferent in all their respective offices that the artful and active scoundrel is allowed to parade the Country without interruption, and commit all imaginable mischief ... What a change an additional regiment would make in this part of the Province!

Even so, the oldest manuscripts, being of the Alexandrian text-type, are the most favored, and the critical text has an Alexandrian disposition.

In spite of his arrogant and contentious disposition, his contemporary reputation was high, judging him so distinguished by his learning and talents that, according to Jacques August de Thou, none of the ancients could be placed above him, and the age in which he lived could not show his equal.

For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower or two of rain but in an inclination thereto of many days together, so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary.

According to Aristotle, eudaimonia actually requires activity, action, so that it is not sufficient for a person to possess a squandered ability or disposition.

Even so, the oldest manuscripts, being of the Alexandrian text-type, are the most favored, and the critical text has an Alexandrian disposition.

The cost of an asset so allocated is the difference between the amount paid for the asset and the amount expected to be received upon its disposition.

The philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote in Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason that since morality lies ultimately in a person's disposition, and as disposition is concerned with the adoption of universal principles, or as he called them: " maxims ", that every human being is guilty of, in one sense, an infinite amount of violations of the law, and so consequently an infinite punishment is not unjustified.

News accounts elaborated on her beauty, describing her as " lovely in disposition, so graceful in manners and so intelligent in features, that she was a favorite of all who knew her ", and that her hair " was of extraordinary length and beauty, measuring a yard and a quarter ".

" Whereas the Black or Aboriginal Natives of this Island have for a considerable time past, carried on a series of indiscriminate attacks upon the persons and property of divers of His Majesty's subjects: and have especially of late perpetrated most cruel and sanguinary acts of violence and outrage ; evincing an evident disposition systematically to kill and destroy the white inhabitants indiscriminately whenever an opportunity of doing so is presented.

" Furthermore, Bede tells us that Cadwallon, " though he bore the name and professed himself a Christian, was so barbarous in his disposition and behaviour, that he neither spared the female sex, nor the innocent age of children, but with savage cruelty put them to tormenting deaths, ravaging all their country for a long time, and resolving to cut off all the race of the English within the borders of Britain.

The appearance of a dragon is both frightening and bold but it has a benevolent disposition, and so eventually became an emblem to represent imperial authority.

The Yankees did not have complete information concerning their opponents ' disposition at this time ; so far as they knew, the Confederate line extended only from the river to the brickyard.

But it is not so easy a thing to sympathize with another, though you may have the best disposition to do it.

The laboratory cat is called Neutron " because he's so positive " ( the name should therefore have been Proton, unless this was a sarcastic label, meaning the cat has a nasty disposition ); the Earth is surrounded by a " heat barrier " which the Metalunan saucer must negotiate both when leaving and returning-although visually dramatic this has no scientific basis ; a planet is referred to as having once been a comet ; and another is transformed into a sun by meteorite bombardment.