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† inhaˈbility Obs.
Also 6 -ite.
[a. F. inhabilité, or ad. med.L. inhabilitās, f. inhabilis unfit, incapable, unable. A doublet of inability.]
1. Unfitness, incapacity, disability (for any office).
1488Sc. Acts Jas. IV (1597) §4 And that the Ordinaries dispone vpon their vther benefices, for the inhabilitie of their persones. c1575Balfour's Practicks (1754) 22 Quhilk inhabilitie being alledgit aganis ony Jugeis, Principall or Deputis. 1588Allen Admon. 52 The sentence declaratory of Pius Quintus against the said Elizabeth..concerning her illegitimation and vsurpation and inhabillite to the Croune of England. 1670H. Stubbe Plus Ultra 28 If Mr. Cross did urge this otherwise than to try the Intellectuals of Mr. Glanvill (concerning whose Inhability he might be well satisfied). 1757Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. iv. ii. §15 (ed. 2) 452 Law allows the party who suspects a witness..to bring evidence of his enmity, or other inhability.
2. = inability, q.v. |