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Why does 'turn of mind' mean 'one's temperament or character'?

I came across the sentence 'He was a person with an inquiring turn of mind even from his early teens', and I found 'turn of mind' means 'one's temperament'. Why does that 'turn' have such a special meaning? I looked 'turn' over in many dictionaries but I couldn't find out why.