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disqualify v. t. (past & past part. disqualified; pres. part. disqualifying)

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. "My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness." "Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society."

To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.

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Etymology of 'Disqualify'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Disqualify" Quotes from Famous Books

... her side. "I will not attempt to palliate a deception which your charms could alone inspire and can alone justify. Hear me, Lady Iduna, hear me with calmness. I love you; I love you with a passion which has been as constant as it is strong. My birth, my rank, my fortunes, do not disqualify me for an union with the daughter of the great Hunniades. If my personal claims may sink in comparison with her surpassing excellence, I am yet to learn that any other prince in Christendom can urge a more effective plea. I am young; the ladies of the court have called me handsome; by your ...

— The Rise of Iskander • Benjamin Disraeli

... Attorney General, Secretary and Registrar of the Province, Treasurer of the Province, Commissioner of Crown Lands, and Commissioner of Agriculture and Public Works, and in Quebec Solicitor General, or shall disqualify him to sit or vote in the House for which he is elected, provided he is elected while ...

— The British North America Act, 1867 • Anonymous

... Assembly,[59] which sustained a motion for his expulsion. And as it was well known that the electors of Lennox and Addington would again return him, and that he could not be permanently excluded by any ordinary means, it was determined to disqualify him by special legislation. An Act was accordingly passed intituled "An Act to render ineligible to a seat in the Commons House of Assembly of this Province certain descriptions of persons therein mentioned."[60] Among the persons declared ineligible were those who had held any of the principal ...

— The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion, Volume 1 • John Charles Dent

... the uncle had arrived at his lodgings with his nephew, partly to indulge his own inclinations (for he dearly loved his bottle), and partly to disqualify his nephew from the immediate execution of his purpose, he ordered wine to be set on the table; with which he so briskly plyed the young gentleman, that this latter, who, though not much used to drinking, did not detest it so as to be guilty of disobedience ...

— The History of Tom Jones, a foundling • Henry Fielding

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