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Definition of Disenable
1. Verb. Make unable to perform a certain action. "Disable this command on your computer"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Specialized synonyms: Lay Up, Nobble, Pinion, Confine, Hold, Restrain
Derivative terms: Disablement
Antonyms: Enable
Definition of Disenable
1. v. t. To disable; to disqualify.
Definition of Disenable
1. Verb. (obsolete) To disable; to disqualify. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disenable
1. [v -ABLED, -ABLING, -ABLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disenable
Literary usage of Disenable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"But now this doth not wholly disenable his testimony ; but could I make it appear
that lie had formerly foresworn himself, that then I had something to the ..."
2. A History of Framingham, Massachusetts: Including the Plantation, from 1640 by William Barry (1847)
"... a loss would "disenable" them for the settling of new inhabitants. They urge
moreover, that these inhabitants (proposing to be annexed to Fram- ingham), ..."
3. Elements of Modern Materialism: Inculcating the Idea of a Future State in by Charles Knowlton (1829)
"Tie the olfactory, optic, auditory and gustato- rv nerves, and you disenable the
animal to smell, see, hear, ainl taste. Tie all the other nerves from the ..."
4. Speeches and Addresses of William E. Russell by William Eustis Russell, Charles Theodore Russell (1893)
""Everlastingly disenable" Shepard! No! but everlastingly enable him to perpetuate
his name and virtues in the hearts of a God-fearing, liberty-loving people ..."
5. The Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection by Walter Hilton (1908)
"CHAPTER XII SECTION I How Lovers of this World in divers ways disenable themselves
... They disenable themselves in divers ways, so that the light of grace ..."
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