disabledadj.n.

Brit.

/dɪsˈeɪbld/, U.S.

/dəˈseɪbəld/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: disable v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < disable v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier disable adj.

A. adj.

I. Deprived of some ability.

1. gen. Rendered incapable of action or use; incapacitated; taken out of service.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > making incapable > made incapable

disabled1598

unqualitieda1616

unsufficienceda1661

disenabled1663

done-up1784

incapacitated1805

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Sgratiato Disgraced, graceles, disabled.

1695 London Gaz. No. 3142/2 He saw off the Durces a disabled Ship.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 381 Shatter'd vessels, and disabled oars.

1805 Times 2 Sept. 2/2 A disabled ship would scarcely run into the Loire, when she had L'Orient and Rochefort on her right and left.

a1895 C. F. Alexander Poems (1896) 136 There the noble, and the dear, Still blest and blessing glide along. While I disabled, and forgot, Fast moulder in this desert spot.

1904 Electr. World & Engineer 27 Feb. 396/2 The trouble may be localised by shutting off the disabled section, the remaining half of the main being kept in service.

1946 Small Unit Actions (U.S. War Dept.) 89 The mine exploded and the disabled tank slid into the ditch minus a track.

2001 F. Popcorn & A. Hanft Dict. Future 29 Rather than replace defective genes by using disabled viruses to deliver replacements, chimeraplasty works by actually repairing them as a form of genetic therapy.

2. Of a person: having a physical or mental condition which limits activity, movement, sensation, etc. Also occasionally of a part of the body. Cf. learning disabled adj. at learning n. Additions.The word disabled came to be used as the standard term in this sense in the second half of the 20th cent., and it remains the most generally accepted term in both British and North American English today. It superseded outmoded, and now frequently offensive, terms such as crippled, handicapped, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disabled

disabled1837

handicapped1946

differently abled1980

1633 G. Herbert Cross in Temple iii I am in all a weak disabled thing.

1667 in W. G. Scott-Moncrieff Rec. Proc. Justiciary Court Edinb. (1905) I. 220 That maheman and mutilation may be inferred as well of a disabled finger as of another member of the body.

1795 R. Cumberland Henry I. ii. iv. 103 The main object with the whole posse, appeared to be that only of guarding one disabled man.

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 190 The families of intemperate or disabled men.

1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 4 One day the right leg would be disabled, whilst the next day it would be the left leg that suffered.

1917 D. Haig Diary 8 Aug. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 313 He expressed himself very anxious to do his best to help disabled officers to get work.

1927 Amer. Speech June 387/2 A pogey is a poorhouse. Government homes for disabled veterans are also known as pogies.

1957 D. T. Clark & B. A. Gottfried Dict. Business & Finance 262/1 The payment of regular pension amounts to retired or disabled employees.

1978 Economist (Nexis) 22 Apr. 28 His parents applied for a mobility allowance, the cash allowance that is replacing the old three-wheeler invalid car supplied to disabled drivers.

2005 Disability Now May 14/1 Nine disabled athletes have been given grants of up to £10,000 in a bid to improve Britain's chances of securing medals at the 2012 Paralympics.

II. Relating to disabled people. Chiefly in attributive use.

a. Designating the status of a disabled person, esp. one recognized as disabled by the state, and who is consequently entitled to certain rights or privileges; (also) designating a means of identifying a vehicle, etc., as belonging to such a person, as disabled badge, disabled sticker.

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1923 Federal Reporter (1924) 294 111 Is his disabled status ‘permanent’. If he recovers, his disability no longer total and permanent, he will no longer be entitled to insurance payments.

1983 H. Rodman & C. Safilios-Rothschild in H. Z. Lopata & J. H. Pleck Res. in Interweave of Social Roles 3 226 Policymakers..can legitimize the disabled status and its exemptions and privileges.

1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 6 Sept. ii. 1/1 Even when the officers aren't being insulted they're often being conned... Some of the more typical ones..: Young beachgoers borrowing a grandparent's disabled sign [etc.].

1988 J. Trollope Choir ix. 161 Alexander walked slowly beside him out to his waiting car with its huge orange disabled stickers.

1994 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 18 June One doesn't get a disabled badge if one is able to walk distances.

2000 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 25 Aug. 6 Most people entitled to disability grants were unable to access the funds as there was no one to certify their disabled status.

b. Of a facility, etc.: designed or adapted for use by the physically disabled (esp. those using wheelchairs). disabled access n. access (to a building, etc.) for the physically disabled; the adaptations or installations in a building, etc., that allow this.

ΚΠ

1977 H. E. Hinton in G. Laurie Housing & Home Service for Disabled viii. 135 The economics of handicapped housing..shows disabled housing to be as good an investment as any other residential income.

1985 Financial Times 23 July 17/2 Refurbishment plans include improvement to the Grays Monument entrance..and perhaps improvement of toilets and disabled facilities.

1987 Guardian (Nexis) 7 Feb. Follow the sign that reads disabled toilet.

1998 K. Lette Altar Ego xxiv. 215 Anouska dented a bollard in a heart-stopping, paint-scraping manoeuvre which Houdinied her into a disabled parking place.

1999 Cathedral Music No. 1. 24/1 The floor of the Quire is being repaved in marble, disabled access and floodlighting are being installed.

2001 S. Wales Evening Post (Electronic ed.) 5 June Council workmen arrived at a house..to install a disabled ramp for [a] tenant..who had died a year earlier.

4. Of a sport or sporting event: designed or reserved for disabled athletes.

ΚΠ

1961 Chicago Sunday Tribune 29 Jan. viii. 3/1 Eight members also participated in the 1960 Paralympics for disabled athletics.

1978 Winnipeg Free Press 1 Dec. 71/1 It's in the field of handicapped or disabled skiing that cross-country touring is opening new doors of physical expression to many individuals.

1997 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 11 May 15 Up to now funding for disabled football has been granted to specific groups such as cerebral palsy sufferers and amputees, which has meant that the game has been ‘non-existent’ at club level.

2004 Palaestra Fall 27/2 Ron, who has an amputation, competes in both non-disabled and disabled races.

B. n.

With plural agreement and the. Disabled people as a class.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > people with disabilities

disabled1740

handicapped1893

differently abled1980

1740 P. Doddridge Family Expositor II. 147 When thou wouldst make an Entertainment, which should turn to the surest Account, let it be plain and frugal, and invite to it the Poor, the Disabled, the Lame, (and) the Blind.

1833 Times 9 Mar. 5/4 The object proposed by the petitioners..is strictly..limited to a provision of the means of existence for ‘the imbecile, the disabled, and the destitute’.

1879 Indiana (Pa.) Democrat 27 Mar. The disabled and invalids receive all the way from $12 to $864 per annum.

1916 19th Cent. Oct. 823 The solution of the disablement problem is..to train the disabled till they can earn a living wage.

1961 Hansard Commons 20 Mar. 44 Houses for the old people, for the sick and the disabled.

1995 M. Lewis Singapore: Rough Guide 21/1 Hefty tax incentives are provided for developers who include access features for the disabled in new buildings.

Compounds

disabled-accessible adj. (of a building, facility, etc.) affording access to the disabled, esp. to those using wheelchairs.

ΚΠ

1982 Mountain Democrat-Times (Placerville, Calif.) 21 May a8/7 The Mount Diablo disabled-accessible trail is one of two pilot projects completed in an Accessibility Expansion Program of the State Park System.

2007 Essex Chron. (Nexis) 26 Apr. 5 The registration department will get £50,000 to make the new premises disabled accessible.

disabled-friendly adj. that caters to the needs of the disabled, as by offering wheelchair access or services for those with impaired vision or hearing.

ΚΠ

1989 Independent 12 Sept. 15/8 A campaign to make cinemas, concert halls, art galleries, theatres and public libraries ‘disabled friendly’ is being launched tomorrow.

2000 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 24 Aug. e2 Crafting a disabled-friendly Web site doesn't take much additional time or expense... It just means remembering that not everyone can see the computer screen, hear the voices coming from the speakers or reach the keyboard with their fingers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	disabled
释义	disabledadj.n. Brit. /dɪsˈeɪbld/, U.S. /dəˈseɪbəld/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: disable v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < disable v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier disable adj. A. adj. I. Deprived of some ability. 1. gen. Rendered incapable of action or use; incapacitated; taken out of service. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > making incapable > made incapable disabled1598 unqualitieda1616 unsufficienceda1661 disenabled1663 done-up1784 incapacitated1805 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes at Sgratiato Disgraced, graceles, disabled. 1695 London Gaz. No. 3142/2 He saw off the Durces a disabled Ship. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 381 Shatter'd vessels, and disabled oars. 1805 Times 2 Sept. 2/2 A disabled ship would scarcely run into the Loire, when she had L'Orient and Rochefort on her right and left. a1895 C. F. Alexander Poems (1896) 136 There the noble, and the dear, Still blest and blessing glide along. While I disabled, and forgot, Fast moulder in this desert spot. 1904 Electr. World & Engineer 27 Feb. 396/2 The trouble may be localised by shutting off the disabled section, the remaining half of the main being kept in service. 1946 Small Unit Actions (U.S. War Dept.) 89 The mine exploded and the disabled tank slid into the ditch minus a track. 2001 F. Popcorn & A. Hanft Dict. Future 29 Rather than replace defective genes by using disabled viruses to deliver replacements, chimeraplasty works by actually repairing them as a form of genetic therapy. 2. Of a person: having a physical or mental condition which limits activity, movement, sensation, etc. Also occasionally of a part of the body. Cf. learning disabled adj. at learning n. Additions.The word disabled came to be used as the standard term in this sense in the second half of the 20th cent., and it remains the most generally accepted term in both British and North American English today. It superseded outmoded, and now frequently offensive, terms such as crippled, handicapped, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased > disabled disabled1837 handicapped1946 differently abled1980 1633 G. Herbert Cross in Temple iii I am in all a weak disabled thing. 1667 in W. G. Scott-Moncrieff Rec. Proc. Justiciary Court Edinb. (1905) I. 220 That maheman and mutilation may be inferred as well of a disabled finger as of another member of the body. 1795 R. Cumberland Henry I. ii. iv. 103 The main object with the whole posse, appeared to be that only of guarding one disabled man. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 190 The families of intemperate or disabled men. 1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 4 One day the right leg would be disabled, whilst the next day it would be the left leg that suffered. 1917 D. Haig Diary 8 Aug. in War Diaries & Lett. 1914–18 (2005) 313 He expressed himself very anxious to do his best to help disabled officers to get work. 1927 Amer. Speech June 387/2 A pogey is a poorhouse. Government homes for disabled veterans are also known as pogies. 1957 D. T. Clark & B. A. Gottfried Dict. Business & Finance 262/1 The payment of regular pension amounts to retired or disabled employees. 1978 Economist (Nexis) 22 Apr. 28 His parents applied for a mobility allowance, the cash allowance that is replacing the old three-wheeler invalid car supplied to disabled drivers. 2005 Disability Now May 14/1 Nine disabled athletes have been given grants of up to £10,000 in a bid to improve Britain's chances of securing medals at the 2012 Paralympics. II. Relating to disabled people. Chiefly in attributive use. 3. a. Designating the status of a disabled person, esp. one recognized as disabled by the state, and who is consequently entitled to certain rights or privileges; (also) designating a means of identifying a vehicle, etc., as belonging to such a person, as disabled badge, disabled sticker. ΚΠ 1923 Federal Reporter (1924) 294 111 Is his disabled status ‘permanent’. If he recovers, his disability no longer total and permanent, he will no longer be entitled to insurance payments. 1983 H. Rodman & C. Safilios-Rothschild in H. Z. Lopata & J. H. Pleck Res. in Interweave of Social Roles 3 226 Policymakers..can legitimize the disabled status and its exemptions and privileges. 1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 6 Sept. ii. 1/1 Even when the officers aren't being insulted they're often being conned... Some of the more typical ones..: Young beachgoers borrowing a grandparent's disabled sign [etc.]. 1988 J. Trollope Choir ix. 161 Alexander walked slowly beside him out to his waiting car with its huge orange disabled stickers. 1994 Scotsman (Electronic ed.) 18 June One doesn't get a disabled badge if one is able to walk distances. 2000 Business Day (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 25 Aug. 6 Most people entitled to disability grants were unable to access the funds as there was no one to certify their disabled status. b. Of a facility, etc.: designed or adapted for use by the physically disabled (esp. those using wheelchairs). disabled access n. access (to a building, etc.) for the physically disabled; the adaptations or installations in a building, etc., that allow this. ΚΠ 1977 H. E. Hinton in G. Laurie Housing & Home Service for Disabled viii. 135 The economics of handicapped housing..shows disabled housing to be as good an investment as any other residential income. 1985 Financial Times 23 July 17/2 Refurbishment plans include improvement to the Grays Monument entrance..and perhaps improvement of toilets and disabled facilities. 1987 Guardian (Nexis) 7 Feb. Follow the sign that reads disabled toilet. 1998 K. Lette Altar Ego xxiv. 215 Anouska dented a bollard in a heart-stopping, paint-scraping manoeuvre which Houdinied her into a disabled parking place. 1999 Cathedral Music No. 1. 24/1 The floor of the Quire is being repaved in marble, disabled access and floodlighting are being installed. 2001 S. Wales Evening Post (Electronic ed.) 5 June Council workmen arrived at a house..to install a disabled ramp for [a] tenant..who had died a year earlier. 4. Of a sport or sporting event: designed or reserved for disabled athletes. ΚΠ 1961 Chicago Sunday Tribune 29 Jan. viii. 3/1 Eight members also participated in the 1960 Paralympics for disabled athletics. 1978 Winnipeg Free Press 1 Dec. 71/1 It's in the field of handicapped or disabled skiing that cross-country touring is opening new doors of physical expression to many individuals. 1997 Independent on Sunday (Nexis) 11 May 15 Up to now funding for disabled football has been granted to specific groups such as cerebral palsy sufferers and amputees, which has meant that the game has been ‘non-existent’ at club level. 2004 Palaestra Fall 27/2 Ron, who has an amputation, competes in both non-disabled and disabled races. B. n. With plural agreement and the. Disabled people as a class. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > sick person > [noun] > people with disabilities disabled1740 handicapped1893 differently abled1980 1740 P. Doddridge Family Expositor II. 147 When thou wouldst make an Entertainment, which should turn to the surest Account, let it be plain and frugal, and invite to it the Poor, the Disabled, the Lame, (and) the Blind. 1833 Times 9 Mar. 5/4 The object proposed by the petitioners..is strictly..limited to a provision of the means of existence for ‘the imbecile, the disabled, and the destitute’. 1879 Indiana (Pa.) Democrat 27 Mar. The disabled and invalids receive all the way from $12 to $864 per annum. 1916 19th Cent. Oct. 823 The solution of the disablement problem is..to train the disabled till they can earn a living wage. 1961 Hansard Commons 20 Mar. 44 Houses for the old people, for the sick and the disabled. 1995 M. Lewis Singapore: Rough Guide 21/1 Hefty tax incentives are provided for developers who include access features for the disabled in new buildings. Compounds disabled-accessible adj. (of a building, facility, etc.) affording access to the disabled, esp. to those using wheelchairs. ΚΠ 1982 Mountain Democrat-Times (Placerville, Calif.) 21 May a8/7 The Mount Diablo disabled-accessible trail is one of two pilot projects completed in an Accessibility Expansion Program of the State Park System. 2007 Essex Chron. (Nexis) 26 Apr. 5 The registration department will get £50,000 to make the new premises disabled accessible. disabled-friendly adj. that caters to the needs of the disabled, as by offering wheelchair access or services for those with impaired vision or hearing. ΚΠ 1989 Independent 12 Sept. 15/8 A campaign to make cinemas, concert halls, art galleries, theatres and public libraries ‘disabled friendly’ is being launched tomorrow. 2000 Washington Post (Electronic ed.) 24 Aug. e2 Crafting a disabled-friendly Web site doesn't take much additional time or expense... It just means remembering that not everyone can see the computer screen, hear the voices coming from the speakers or reach the keyboard with their fingers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1598
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