| 单词 |
disenable |
| 释义 |
disenable, v.|dɪsɪˈneɪb(ə)l|
Also 6–7 -inable.
[f. dis- 6 + enable.]
trans. To render unable or incapable; to disable: the reverse of enable.
1604T. Wright Passions vi. 346 By sinnes we are..wounded in nature, disenabled to goodnes, and incited to ilnes. 1608Hieron Defence ii. 197 Bellarmin, by rejecting their testimonies in parte, disinableth them in the whole. 1651Fuller's Abel Rediv., Bradford 188 The Palsie..for eight yeers together disinabled him from riding. 1690Secr. Hist. Chas. II & Jas. II, 110 A Bill to disinable him to inherit the Imperial Crown of the Realm. 1811Lamb Edax on Appetite, I am constitutionally disenabled from that vice. 1873Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 220 [This] makes all the personages puppets and disenables them for being characters.
absol.1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. i. xv. 48 Neither doth an apprentiship extinguish native, nor disinable to acquisitive Gentry. 1658–9Burton's Diary (1828) III. 434 By the Act of Oblivion they are pardoned, but it is your law in being that does disenable.
Hence diseˈnabled ppl. a., diseˈnabling vbl. n.; also diseˈnablement, the action of disenabling or fact of being disenabled.
1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xvi. 57 By his deserued death, and the disenablement of his sonnes. 1613Jackson Creed i. iii. xi. [xxviii.] §1. 175 For disinabling of this Nation from effecting what he feared. 1641Milton Reform. i. (1851) 8 To set their hands to the disinabling and defeating..of Princesse Mary. 1663Depos. Cast. York (Surtees) 113 She..was soe infirme and disenabled, that [etc.]. |
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