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Disability
(Dis`a*bil"i*ty) n.; pl. Disabilities

1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.

Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted.

Milton.

Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability.

Bancroft.

2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.

The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture.

Abbott.

Syn. — Weakness; inability; incompetence; impotence; incapacity; incompetency; disqualification. — Disability, Inability. Inability is an inherent want of power to perform the thing in question; disability arises from some deprivation or loss of the needed competency. One who becomes deranged is under a disability of holding his estate; and one who is made a judge, of deciding in his own case. A man may decline an office on account of his inability to discharge its duties; he may refuse to accept a trust or employment on account of some disability prevents him from entering into such engagements.

Disable
(Dis*a"ble) a. Lacking ability; unable. [Obs.] "Our disable and unactive force." Daniel.

Disable
(Dis*a"ble) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disabled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disabling ]

1. To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.

A Christian's life is a perpetual exercise, a wrestling and warfare, for which sensual pleasure disables him.

Jer. Taylor.

And had performed it, if my known offense
Had not disabled me.

Milton.

I have disabled mine estate.

Shak.

2. (Law) To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable.

An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood, and disables his children to inherit.

Blackstone.

3. To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue. [Obs.] "He disabled my judgment." Shak.

Syn. — To weaken; unfit; disqualify; incapacitate.

Disablement
(Dis*a"ble*ment) n. Deprivation of ability; incapacity. Bacon.

Disabuse
(Dis`a*buse") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disabused ; p. pr. & vb. n. Disabusing.] [Pref. dis- + abuse; cf. F. désabuser.] To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.

To undeceive and disabuse the people.

South.

If men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves or artifice, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history.

J. Adams.

Disaccommodate
(Dis`ac*com"mo*date) v. t. [Pref. dis- + accommodate.] To put to inconvenience; to incommode. [R.] Bp. Warburton.