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Definition of Disqualify
1. Verb. Make unfit or unsuitable. "Your income disqualifies you"
Generic synonyms: Alter, Change, Modify
Derivative terms: Disqualification, Disqualification
Antonyms: Qualify
2. Verb. Declare unfit. "She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete"
Specialized synonyms: Recuse, Disbar
Derivative terms: Disqualification, Disqualification
Antonyms: Qualify
Definition of Disqualify
1. v. t. To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act.
Definition of Disqualify
1. Verb. To make ineligible for something, by the explicit revocation of a previous qualification. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disqualify
1. [v -FIED, -FYING, -FIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disqualify
Literary usage of Disqualify
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"The interest which will disqualify a witness must be some legal, certain, and
immediate interest in the result of the cause or in the record. ..."
2. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"Common Council of police officer does not disqualify deputy Superior, 90 Wis.
612. When, by stat- giving the direction to hold the trial, ute, ..."
3. Cyclopedia of the Law of Private Corporations by William Meade Fletcher (1917)
"Effect of disposing of stock after election, so as to disqualify officer.
A statutory provision that "if a director shall cease to be a stockholder, ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England: In Four Books by William Blackstone, Thomas McIntyre Cooley (1872)
"But the interest to disqualify the party must be certain and vested. Leach, 133.
The wife of a bankrupt cannot be examined as to her husband's bankruptcy. ..."
5. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1904)
"not disqualify the Juror. Central Railroad Co. v. Roberts, 91 Ga. 513, 18 SE 315;
Keener v. Stete, 97 Ga. 388, 24 SE 28. 4. The finding of the jury was ..."
6. A Treatise on the Power to Enact, Passage, Validity and Enforcement of by Norton Townshend Horr, Alton A. Bemis (1887)
"Citizenship does not disqualify the magistrate. Every citizen of a municipality
has an interest in the prompt aud vigorous enforcement of its ordinances. ..."
7. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1827)
"... disqualify Proprietors of Slaves from being public Functionaries—Motion to
the same effect made in the Commons by Mr. Smith— Petitions from the Council ..."
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