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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Disability \Dis`a*bil"i*ty\, n.; pl {Disabilities}. 1. State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means fitness, and the like Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. --Milton. Chatham refused to see him pleading his disability. --Bancroft. 2. Want of legal qualification to do a thing legal incapacity or incompetency. The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture. --Abbott. Syn: Weakness; inability; incompetence; impotence; incapacity; incompetency; disqualification. Usage: -- {Disability}, {Inability}. Inability is an inherent want of power to perform the thing in question; disability arises from some deprivation or loss of the needed competency. One who becomes deranged is under a disability of holding his estate; and one who is made a judge, of deciding in his own case. A man may decline an office on account of his inability to discharge its duties; he may refuse to accept a trust or employment on account of some disability prevents him from entering into such engagements.
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