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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

... looks as if we will have to disqualify," finally pronounced Frank, after his fifth endeavor at a substitute lever had broken off short when a strain was ...

— The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... importance with Charlemagne to support the papal authority, as holding out the only means of spreading Christianity, which he justly considered the most effectual instrument he could employ to enlighten and civilize the world. An attempt had been made to mutilate the Pope, and thus disqualify him for his office, by Campulus and Paschal, two disappointed aspirants to the papacy; but he escaped from their hands and brought his complaints before Charlemagne. The conspirators then attempted to justify the deed, by ...

— Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 1 of 8 • Various

... of the advocates of female suffrage is of a general character. It does not point to particular abuses, it claims the right of woman to vote as one which she should demand, whether practically needed or not. It is asserted that to disqualify half the race from voting is an abuse entirely inconsistent with the first principles of American politics. The answer to this is plain. The elective franchise is not an end; it is only a means. A good government is indeed an ...

— Female Suffrage • Susan Fenimore Cooper

... announcement, the titles of the specific sound recordings to be transmitted, the phonorecords embodying such sound recordings, or, other than for illustrative purposes, the names of the featured recording artists, except that this clause does not disqualify a transmitting entity that makes a prior announcement that a particular artist will be featured within an unspecified future time period, and in the case of a retransmission of a broadcast transmission by a transmitting ...

— Copyright Law of the United States of America and Related Laws Contained in Title 17 of the United States Code, Circular 92 • Library of Congress. Copyright Office.

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