Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Disabled; incapacitated.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Disabled.

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  • adjective obsolete disabled

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Examples

  • I agree with s-kfry, but i also think that crossbows should be for the unabled bodies that cannot pull back a bow.

    On Crossbows For 50-Year-Olds 2009

  • I agree with s-kfry, but i also think that crossbows should be for the unabled bodies that cannot pull back a bow.

    On Crossbows For 50-Year-Olds 2009

  • These children are "permanently unabled," they say, and will remain at an infant level mentally and physically.

    CNN interviews parents of Ashley X BA Haller 2008

  • I am talking survival here … …. .you need every able bodied person trying to save every unabled body person.

    No one is in charge « BuzzMachine 2005

  • So many of us fought for accessibility in web page design, and the development of accessibility-enabled software tools and hardware to help the blind, handicapped, and finger-unabled to use the web.

    Meet Them: Benefits of Compliance with Web Standards « Lorelle on WordPress 2005

  • I remembered too much, unabled for the sword and buckler, for spellbook and moon, for altar and incense, for the birds 'veiled grammar and the seasons' alembic, and always the river was telling me telling me COME, ASTRALAS, COME TO THE WATERS:

    The Reign of Istar Weis, Margaret 1992

  • Owning, further, that the recurrence of these idiotic speculations, feelings, questions, wrote him down as both dull fellow and impertinent, he was unabled to restore Aminta to the queenly place she took above the schoolmaster, who was very soon laughing at his fever or flash of the afternoon.

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • Owning, further, that the recurrence of these idiotic speculations, feelings, questions, wrote him down as both dull fellow and impertinent, he was unabled to restore Aminta to the queenly place she took above the schoolmaster, who was very soon laughing at his fever or flash of the afternoon.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • Owning, further, that the recurrence of these idiotic speculations, feelings, questions, wrote him down as both dull fellow and impertinent, he was unabled to restore Aminta to the queenly place she took above the schoolmaster, who was very soon laughing at his fever or flash of the afternoon.

    Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • We must conclude that the study of the classics accomplishes everything claimed for them and that the objections which have been urged are of no importance whatever, for the gentlemen are unabled to substitute any studies as equivalents and which are equivalents.

    Junior Speech of Elijah Benton Withers for the Dialectic Society, 1858: "Are the Classics Worthy of the Attention They Receive in our Modern Colleges?" 1858

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