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incapacitate, v.|ɪnkəˈpæsɪteɪt|
[f. incapacity + -ate3: cf. capacitate.]
1. trans. To deprive of capacity; to render incapable; to disqualify, unfit. Const. for, † of, from, or inf.
1661South Serm. III. 170 There is an Universal stain and depravation upon Mans Nature, that does incapacitate him for the Fruition of God. 1666G. Harvey Morb. Angl. xii. 137 They are..incapacitated of digesting the alimonious humours into flesh. 1727Swift What passed in London, Which might..incapacitate her to give ready and apt answers. 1830Herschel Stud. Nat. Phil. 91 A state that incapacitates us from reasoning, and almost from observation! 1877S. Cox Salv. Mundi vii. (1878) 152 A reward which his evil qualities and defects incapacitated him to receive. 1882Mrs. Pitman Mission L. Greece & Pal. 254 My lameness does not incapacitate me..for the work of the day school.
2. To deprive of legal capacity; to disqualify in law.
1657Cromwell Sp. 21 Apr. in Carlyle, You have incapacitated public Preachers from sitting in Parliament. 1687in Magd. Coll. & Jas. II (O.H.S.) 222 The order for incapacitating the late Fellows..was read. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 162 A minor was incapacitated..from sitting in either house, by the law and custom of parliament. 1885Law Rep. 29 Ch. Div. 548 The death of one of two trustees does not incapacitate the other trustee from giving a good receipt for trust funds paid to him.
Hence incaˈpacitated, incaˈpacitating ppl. adjs.
1783Johnson Let. to Reynolds 12 Apr. in Boswell, If you could procure the revocation of this incapacitating Edict. 1805E. de Acton Nuns of Desert II. 73 The incapacitated situation of his servant. 1811Henry & Isabella II. 59 Many instances of daughters supporting incapacitated parents. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such ii. 37 To look always from overhead at the crowd of one's fellow-men must be in many ways incapacitating. |