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Webster 1913 Edition

Incapacity

Inˊca-pac′i-ty

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Noun.
;
pl.
Incapacities
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[Cf. F.
incapacité
.]
1.
Lack of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.
Syn. – Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification; disability.

Webster 1828 Edition

Incapacity

INCAPAC'ITY

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Noun.
[in and capacity.] Want of capacity, intellectual power, or the power of receiving, containing or understanding; applied to the mind, and it may be natural or casual. There is a natural incapacity in children to comprehend difficult propositions in logic or metaphysics, and a natural incapacity in men to comprehend the nature of spiritual beings. The defect of understanding proceeding from intoxication, or from an injury done to the brain, is a casual incapacity.
1.
Want of qualification or legal requisites; inability; as the incapacity of minors to make binding contracts.
2.
Disqualification; disability by deprivation of power; as the incapacity of a convict to give testimony in a court of law.

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