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Disenable   Listen
verb
Disenable  v. t.  To disable; to disqualify. "The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Disenable" Quotes from Famous Books



... conclusive, and we do not wonder that Mr. Forster should lay great stress upon it. The depreciatory conclusions of Dr. Johnson are doubtless entitled to consideration; but his evidence is all from hearsay, and there were properties in Swift that aroused in him so hearty a moral repulsion as to disenable him for an unprejudiced opinion. Admirable as the rough-and-ready conclusions of his robust understanding often are, he was better fitted to reckon the quantity of a man's mind than the quality of it—the real test of its value; and there ...
— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell



Words linked to "Disenable" :   nobble, confine, pinion, lay up, alter, hold, change



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