a1492 W. Caxton tr. Vitas Patrum (1495) ii. f. cciiii^v /1 I am all dysabled of my membres.

1606 G. W. tr. Justinus Hist. 57 b His continual sicknes..was like to dishable the gouernment and sway of so high a place.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxvi. sig. E2^v Strength by limping sway disabled . View more context for this quotation

1662 in Proc. Soc. Antiquaries Scotl. (1888) 22 256 The wrong off Androw Peacok by casting som thing at him, disabling him in his hench.

1712 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 296 My writeing hand hath been disabled by a sprain.

1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 283 A Wound in his Breast by a Musket-ball..disabled him at present.

1814 C. Capel Let. 12 June (1955) i. 41 The poor children suffered dreadfully from Sickness,..& Thorpe..was as I expected totally disabled.

1893 Weekly Notes 28 85/2 A member being permanently disabled by an accident.

1937 H. Jennings et al. May 12th Mass-observ. Day-surv. ii. 380 Her husband was a ships painter, disabled by a fall.

1969 Newsweek 16 June 44/2 The dread black-lung disease..annually disables thousands of miners.

1996 Independent 28 Aug. ii 4/2 Ponting..had given up a much-loved job..to care for her mother who had been severely disabled by a stroke.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 39 Thee Gods thee cittye dishable.

1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft iii. xv. 64 Foure old witches, who with their charms so qualified the Danes, as they were thereby disabled.

1672 H. Saville Let. in M. A. Forbes Curiosities Sc. Charta Chest (1897) i. 15 Capt. Berry in the Resolution and Sir Fretcheville Holler in the Cambridge..were both soon disabled.

c1790 J. Willock Voy. diverse parts 56 We were struck by a sea, which totally disabled us.

1854 T. De Quincey Murder in Select. Grave & Gay IV. 107 The landlord..they intended to disable by a trick then newly introduced amongst robbers, and termed hocussing.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 8 July 5/2 The tail-shaft got bent and could not be rectified, consequently the ship became disabled.

1957 J. Kerouac Let. 25 Mar. in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 17 I naturally dont [sic] want any extensive useless changes that will disable the prose and render it Non-Jack.

1976 A. White Long Silence vii. 53 The railway marshalling yards we were to disable were crescent-shaped.

2003 N.Y. Times 23 Feb. iv. 3/1 The soldier is taught to consider using a lighter weapon to disable the tank.

1932 Bell Telephone Q. 11 102 There is provided an automatic protection in the receiving detector and delay circuit, which..disables the transmitting detector so that stray noise currents..cannot act to change the state of affairs until the distant speaker has finished.

1947 F. E. Terman Radio Engin. (ed. 3) xv. 765 Communication receivers normally include a tuning meter..and a switch to disable the A.V.C. and replace it by a normal volume control.

1990 I. M. Banks Use of Weapons (1992) i. 44 The drone used its electromagnetic effector to disable the door's alarm.

2004 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 25 Aug. 2 To disable the call forwarding, you turn your phone on and dial +73.

1529 in Vicary's Anat. Bodie of Man (1888) App. xiv. 256 Yt ys ordeyned that no man of the sayde Felyshippe shall..speke any Slaunderus wordes yn disablyng hym of hys science.

1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 171 Least God be disabled in any thyng that is due to his omnipotencie.

1604 King James VI & I Counterblaste to Tobacco sig. C4^v How you are by this custome disabled in your goods.

1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 435 All things that depriue or disable the debtor in any of these, do weaken and lessen his meanes.

1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 292 He..disabled them of sixteen thousand good horses.

1713 C. Cibber tr. P. Corneille in Cinna's Conspiracy i. ii. 7 When dead he'll be disabled of Revenge.

1548 E. Gest Treat. againste Masse sig. Cviii^v Lesse hys fyrst offering..be..dishabled to the ful contentation of syn.

1574 J. Dee in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) (Camden) 34 My father was dishabled for leaving unto me due mayntenance.

a1602 W. Perkins Cases of Consc. (1619) 328 Immoderate excesse, whereby we are vtterly disabled from these..duties.

a1627 W. Sclater Expos. 4th Chapter Rom. (1650) 127 We are wilfully disabled to performance.

1660 E. Waterhouse Disc. Arms & Armory 106 Nor could they be chargable with what should disable the Tenurer to do his service.

1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd xxviii. 304 The Feeling at Stomach may thereby be disabled to take any notice of it.

1704 Duke of Marlborough Let. 28 Aug. in H. L. Snyder Marlborough–Godolphin Corr. (1975) I. 360 I hope this victory is soe great that it will disable them from putting in exacusion severall projects thay had resolved.

1790 Coll. Voy. round World IV. vii. 1534 Incumbered by many garments..which must disable them to exert their strength in the day of battle.

1848 R. D. Hampden Bampton Lect. (ed. 3) Introd. 20 Men..are disabled from understanding what they have been taught to condemn.

1946 J. H. Morgan Assize of Arms i. ii. 36 The moment the old Army was demobilized and a new Army nominally created, we should have been disabled from making any attempt to discover whether the prescriptions of the Treaty..were complied with or not.

1997 Federal News Service (Nexis) 5 Mar. Am I correct that a person who is disabled from possessing a firearm because of the domestic violence misdemeanor cannot apply to the ATF for relief?