▪ I. † inhabile, a. Obs.
[a. F. inhabile, or ad. L. inhabilis incapable, unfit, unable, f. in- (in-3) + habilis manageable, suitable, fit, able, habile.]
Unfit, unable; unqualified.
| 1727 Bailey vol. II, Inhabile, unmeet, unfit, unwieldy, not nimble. 1745 tr. Columella's Husb. xii. i, To the Woman, because Nature had made her inhabile for all these things, she committed the care of domestic affairs. 1830 Scott Demonol. ix. 299 Extorted confessions, or the evidence of inhabile witnesses. |
▪ II. † inˈhabile, inˈhable, v. Obs. rare.
[f. inhabile a.]
trans. To render or declare unfit; to disqualify, disable.
| 1534 in St. Papers Hen. VIII, II. 218 [To] inhabill thaym, and every of thaym to receyv or accept anny other. 1542 Act 33 Hen. VIII in Bolton Stat. Irel. (1621) 192 Nor that any of the said persons being Priests..be inhabled..to marrie or take any wife or wives. 1590 R. Bruce Serm. Sacram. E ij b (Jam.), I speake..of sik fault as inhables the person of the giuer, to be a distributer of the sacrament. |
▪ III. inhabile
obs. form of enable v.