† incompetiˈbility Obs.
[f. next: see -ity.]
The quality or condition of being ‘incompetible’; incompetency, incapacity. Sometimes confused with incompatibility: see the latter, sense 2.
| 1664 Hammond 19 Serm. Wks. 1684 IV. 604 The competibility of knowledge, and incompetibility of true faith with carnall desires. 1677 Hale Prim. Orig. Man. 122 The stress..rests not upon the incompetibility of an excess of one Infinitude above another, either in Intension or Extension, but the incompetibility of any multitude to be infinite. |