uncapable
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of uncapable
Example Sentences
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Guerrero's 22-year-old daughter, Melani,says that her father's life has changed completely because of the accident, and rendered him uncapable of doing many of the things he used to.
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He that Wins the Prize and Sells it, shall be uncapable of Wrestling here any more.
From Project Gutenberg
Nothing disproportions us, nor makes us so uncapable of being reunited to those whom we loved here, as murmuring, or not advancing the goodness of him, who hath removed them from hence.
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I confesse I veer'd my tongue to this kinde of Language de industria though unwillingly, supposing those I speak to are uncapable of grave and rationall arguments.
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And the Aristotelians gave the Name of occult Qualities, not to manifest Qualities, but to such Qualities only as they supposed to lie hid in Bodies, and to be the unknown Causes of manifest Effects: Such as would be the Causes of Gravity, and of magnetick and electrick Attractions, and of Fermentations, if we should suppose that these Forces or Actions arose from Qualities unknown to us, and uncapable of being discovered and made manifest.
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