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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of disenable.

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Examples

  • “Our embarrassments for money are great,” Lee explained to a friend in Europe, “not because there is any real want of it, but because by the constitution of the Bank, & until lately a most prosperous commerce, in this tory city, has accumulated all the money here & consequently disenabled the other States from paying taxes to support the war.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • “Our embarrassments for money are great,” Lee explained to a friend in Europe, “not because there is any real want of it, but because by the constitution of the Bank, & until lately a most prosperous commerce, in this tory city, has accumulated all the money here & consequently disenabled the other States from paying taxes to support the war.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Eitive and Glen Urcha has deprived the country of all the trees of sufficient size to cross the strait of Brandir; and it is probable that the currach was not introduced till the want of timber had disenabled the inhabitants of the country from maintaining a bridge.

    Chronicles of the Canongate 2008

  • But where the minds of men, through their native darkness, are disenabled to discern the glory of spiritual things, and, through their carnal, unmortified affection, do cleave unto, and have the highest esteem of, worldly grandeur, it is no wonder if they suppose the beauty and glory of the church to consist in them.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • So that to err from the ways of God is to have our hearts weakened, spiritually disenabled, often turned aside from the vigorous, effectual, powerful walking with God, which we are called unto.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • But whilst by some this work is despised, at least counted unnecessary, by some it is neglected utterly; and others, by reason of their private capacities, whereby they are disenabled to speak unto magistrates, cities, or the community of the people, think not themselves concerned therein, [and] it is almost wholly laid aside.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Lord, are disenabled to make provision for themselves.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • But upon the introduction of the new principle of grace and holiness in our sanctification, this habit of sin is weakened, impaired, and so disenabled as that it cannot nor shall incline unto sin with that constancy and prevalency as formerly, nor press unto it ordinarily with the same urgency and violence.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • For the one half of that small space of time which is passed since the breaking forth of the light of the gospel in this nation, we are disenabled from pursuing the comparison instituted, the one part being not to be considered, or at least not being considerable.

    The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

  • The plaintiffs (the Comstocks) by their acts have disenabled Moore from using _his own name_ .... (emphasis in original).

    History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills Robert B. Shaw

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