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dis- +‎ enable

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disenable (third-person singular simple present disenables, present participle disenabling, simple past and past participle disenabled)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To disable; to disqualify.
    • 1640, State Trials:
      The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for disenable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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