† inhabileadj.
Obsolete.
Unfit, unable; unqualified.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [adjective] > unable or unapt > unfit or unqualified
indisposedc1449
unabled1497
unhabile1539
unqualified1556
inabilitate1577
incapable1651
inhabile1727
1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Inhabile, unmeet, unfit, unwieldy, not nimble.
1745 tr. L. J. M. Columella Of Husbandry xii. i To the Woman, because Nature had made her inhabile for all these things, she committed the care of domestic affairs.
1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft ix. 299 Extorted confessions, or the evidence of inhabile witnesses.
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† inhabileinhablev.
Obsolete. rare.
transitive. To render or declare unfit; to disqualify, disable.
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the world > action or operation > ability > inability > render unable [verb (transitive)] > render unapt or unfit
undisposec1380
inhabile1534
unapt1593
unfit1611
unqualify1631
indispose1657
disfit1669
inhabilitate1670
disqualify1723
unsuit1869
1534 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) II. 218 [To] inhabill thaym, and every of thaym to receyv or accept anny other.
1542 Act 33 Hen. VIII in R. Bolton Statutes Ireland (1621) 192 Nor that any of the said persons being Priests..be inhabled..to marrie or take any wife or wives.
?1591 R. Bruce Serm. Sacrament i. sig. E2 v I speake..of sik faults as inhables the person of the giuer, to be a distributer of the Sacrament.
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