单词 | incapacitation |
释义 | incapacitationn. The action of incapacitating or fact of being incapacitated; the rendering or being rendered incapable; disqualification. a. general: cf. incapacity n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > inability > [noun] > rendering incapable > action or fact of incapacitation1790 1790 G. Walker Serm. Var. Subj. II. xix. 82 An incapacitation for the happiness of heaven. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems xxi. 8 A wily wit defeated Pays in scandalous incapacitation. b. legal: cf. incapacity n. 2. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal capacity > [noun] > removing unabling1475 disablement1485 disabling1495 incapacitation1770 1770 E. Burke Thoughts Present Discontents 54 If they suffer this power of arbitrary incapacitation to stand, they have utterly perverted every other power of the House of Commons. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlvi. 170 The house of commons..exceeded their boasted precedent of the expulsion and subsequent incapacitation of Mr. Walpole. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. viii. 181 A public sign of their incapacitation for secular business. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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