1495 Rolls of Parl. (2005) VI. 461 The seid atteyndre and dishabling of the seid Gervys.

?1567 M. Parker Whole Psalter lxix. 188 They did it cast, to my disabelyng.

1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. N3^v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Meosis, a maner of disabling, as when wee say, alas sir, it is not in my power to do it.

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) III. 248 I was against utter disabling in the other case, because I would not have you meddle with after Parliaments.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 4 July (1972) VII. 194 Many of our ships coming in with very small disablings.

1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd vii. 39 Which diminishing, or disabling of the Spirits, Cold Quality, and Fumes, (or Aura) comprehend the Foundations of all Opinions concerning Opium.

1797 Encycl. Brit. IX. 720/2 Mutilation, or the disabling of a member, is punished at the discretion of the judge.

1838 H. W. Herbert Cromwell i. vi. 94 The disabling the bishops from the exercise of voting in the upper house, or of any temporal office throughout the kingdom.

1869 E. S. P. Ward Men, Women & Ghosts 212 A slight accident had occurred..to the train which she should have taken. There was some disabling, but no deaths.

1880 Times 10 July 7/4 The operations..will be conducted under new stringent conditions with reference to hits and disablings.

1921 Yale Law Jrnl. 30 237 The rules that determine these permissions and enablings and disablings are rules that law schools have to teach.

1979 Canad. Jrnl. Afr. Stud. 13 17 The vast majority of deaths and disablings were due to disease, overwork, and undernourishment.

2001 T. W. Shinder et al. Configuring ISA Server 2000 viii. 497 This disabling will break your FTP client's ability to connect to an FTP server.

1594 J. Dickenson Arisbas sig. B 3^v He would supply in good will the disabling defects of his lowe estate.

1687 R. L'Estrange Brief Hist. Times I. 63 The Next Resolve is the Revenging Vote, and after That, the Disabling Bill.

1756 Monitor I. xxxii. 293 Must that fire..be smothered by disabling clauses in statutes?

1763 Ld. Hardwicke Let. 5 Aug. in G. Harris Life Ld. Hardwicke (1847) III. xv. 370 I..made all the dutiful, grateful, but disabling speeches that became me.

1841 W. G. Simms Kinsmen I. xviii. 229 The wound was one of the flesh only, not deep nor disabling.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh ii. 61 The creaking of the door..Which let upon you such disabling news.

1875 R. Hill & F. Hill What we saw in Austral. vi. 119 The battles are very sanguinary—at least in the exchange of dangerous and disabling wounds.

1923 J. Conrad Let. 25 Mar. (1956) 291 I hope your 'flu if very disabling will not be very serious.

1970 Guardian 12 Nov. 9/1 Robert Ardrey..is..a natural and disabling simpliste.

1999 J. Zonderman Beyond Crime Lab x. 241 She would face increased risk of occupational illness and disabling disease by working in a particular industry.

1880 W. Cyples Inq. Proc. Human Exper. 260 No part of the apparatus was disablingly barred from the constituting-process.

1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover i. ii. 30 The pale self-assured little boy..had become a highly intelligent, rather disablingly fastidious young man.