A.placing in order, arrangement (“ἡ τοῦ ἔχοντος μέρη τάξις” Arist.Metaph.1022b1), Antipho Soph.24a; “πολιτείας” Pl.Lg.710b; “τῶν ξενίων” Id.Ti.27a.
2. disposition or composition in a work of art (opp.εὕρεσις), Id.Phdr.236a; opp.ἱστορία, μῦθος, Plb. 34.4.1, Plu.Arat.32, etc.; “δ. ᾠδῆς” Eup.303; “τῶν ἐπῶν” Phryn.Com. 55; plan of a building, Plu.Per.13; subject of a picture, etc., Polem. ap. Ath.5.210b; “δ. μυθολογίας” Plu.2.16b; representation in a play, Hero Aut.20.2: in pl., word-painting, Plu.2.17b; of geographical description, Str.1.1.16; rhetorical art, “μετ᾽ αὐξήσεως καὶ διαθέσεως” Plb.2.61.1.
4. disposing of, sale, “τῶν περιόντων” Isoc.11.14, cf. PTeb.38.10 (ii B.C.), Str.11.2.12, Plu.Sol. 24; οἷς δ. εὔπορος, perh. means of disposing of it, of making away with it, Arist.Rh.1372a33 (possibly, inventive disposition).
II. (from Pass.) bodily state, condition, Hp.VM7, Arist.GA778b34; “δ. τοῦ σώματος” Philem.95.4; δ. ὑγιεινή, νοσώδης, Gal.5.826, 17(2).238; ἕξις defined as “δ. μόνιμος” Id.5.826; “νευρικὴ δ.” OGI331.11 (Pergam.); of the mind, Antipho Soph. 24a; “ἕξις ψυχῆς καὶ δ.” Pl.Phlb.11d; distd. from ἕξις, Arist.Cat.8b28, de An.417b15, Zeno and Chrysipp.Stoic.1.50, 3.111; “δ. ἁμαρτωλός” Phld.Lib.p.560., al.; δ. σωματική, ψυχική, A.D.Synt.278.10: pl., Diotog. ap. Stob.4.7.62.
2. generally, state, condition, “τὴν βασιγείαν εἰς τὴν ἀρχαίαν δ. κατέστησεν” OGI 219.11 (Sigeum, iv/iii B.C.).
3. Gramm., force, function, τοῦ ὀνόματος δ. εἰσὶ δύο, ἐνέργεια καὶ πάθος (e.g. κριτής, κριτός) D.T.637.29; esp. of the voices of the verb, “δ. εἰσὶ τρεῖς, ἐνέργεια, πάθος, μεσότης” Id.638.8; δ. παθητική, μέση, A.D.Synt.210.19, 226.10; also of tense, χρονικὴ δ. ib.251.1 (s.v.l.); διαβατικὴ δ. transitive force, ib.43.18.