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Disablement

noun
1.
The condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness.  Synonyms: disability, handicap, impairment.  "Hearing impairment"






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"Disablement" Quotes from Famous Books



... and extolling a foreign jurisdiction. And as for the oath, it was altered by her majesty into a more grateful form; the hardness of the name and appellation of supreme head was removed; and the penalty of the refusal thereof turned only into disablement to take any promotion, or to exercise any charge, and yet with liberty of being reinvested therein if any man should accept thereof during his life. But when, after Pius Quintus had excommunicated her majesty, and the bills of excommunication were published in London, whereby her majesty ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin

... satisfactorily solved. The results are sometimes no worse than the ordinary results of dirt getting into cuts; but neither the doctor nor the patient is quite satisfied unless the inoculation "takes"; that is, unless it produces perceptible illness and disablement. Sometimes both doctor and patient get more value in this direction than they bargain for. The results of ordinary private-practice-inoculation at their worst are bad enough to be indistinguishable from those of the most discreditable and dreaded disease known; and doctors, ...
— The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors • George Bernard Shaw

... parts of the aeroplane? While the deliberate intention of either combatant is to put his antagonist hors de combat, the disablement of the machine may be achieved without necessarily killing or even seriously wounding the hostile airman. The prevailing type of aeroplane is highly susceptible to derangement: it is like a ship without armour plate protection. The objective of the antagonist is the motor ...
— Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War • Frederick A. Talbot



Words linked to "Disablement" :   astasia, vision defect, descensus, dysomia, dysphasia, bowleg, hypesthesia, tibia vara, softness, bandy legs, prolapsus, disability of walking, disable, hearing impairment, hearing disorder, visual defect, bow leg, anorgasmia, pigeon toes, bandyleg, genu varum, genu valgum, knock-knee, tibia valga, bandy leg, disintegration, prolapse, visual disorder, bow legs, visual impairment, amputation, hypoesthesia, unfitness



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