disenable
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They meant also to distress us by accumulating our seamen in their prisons; and this they imagined would disenable us from manning our men of war, or sending out privateers.
But to be disenabled from walking in this situation was sure death.
From An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut detailing the distressing events of the expedition against Quebec, under the command of Col. Arnold in the year 1775 by Stocking, Abner
I am constitutionally disenabled from that vice; for how can he be guilty of excess who never can get enough?
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles
The arm with which I struck was presently disenabled, and it vanished away.
From The Witch of Salem or Credulity Run Mad by Carter, F. A. (Freeland A.)
Age has overtaken me, and want, a more insufferable evil, through the change of the times, has wholly disenabled me.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various
Even so, triggers surrounding a perpetration can frequently send the brain into a fight, flight, or freeze panic, disenabling a survivor to think clearly, never mind communicate coherently about their experience.
From Slate ● Feb. 15, 2018
This Order, therefore, may prove a nursing-mother to sects, but I shall easily show how it will be a step-dame to Truth: and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already.
From Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by Milton, John
