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incapacitation|ɪnkəpæsɪˈteɪʃən|
[n. of action f. incapacitate.]
The action of incapacitating or fact of being incapacitated; the rendering or being rendered incapable; disqualification. a. general: cf. prec. 1.
1790G. Walker Serm. II. xix. 82 An incapacitation for the happiness of heaven. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xxi. 8 A wily wit defeated Pays in scandalous incapacitation.
b. legal: cf. prec. 2.
1770Burke Pres. Discont. Wks. 1842 I. 143 If they suffer this power of arbitrary incapacitation to stand, they have utterly perverted every other power of the house of commons. 1771Junius Lett. xx. 93 note, The house of Commons..exceeded their boasted precedent of the expulsion and subsequent incapacitation of Mr. Walpole. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. iv. viii. (1864) II. 385 A public sign of their incapacitation for secular business.
attrib.1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 210 Mr. Belsham applauds the clergy-incapacitation act. |