incapacious

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Small

   Small; narrow; cramped; unable to hold or allow the passage of very much.

2. 2

   Not capable

   Not capable; having limited abilities; weak, incompetent, and/or foolish.

   • Can art be so dim-sighted, learnèd sir? I did not think her so incapacious.
   • When Nature has doom'd him among the incapacious and silly, 't is not in the power of correction or instruction, or in all the arts, to cure him.
   • The mute is linguistically incapacious; he cannot talk because he cannot think and consequently is silent in all languages. The mute is incapacious in oral language.
3. 3

   Insufficient.

   • […] by buzzing them into popular eares and capaci- ties, incapacious of them, unable to comprehend them.
   • These my Letters are incapacious for mee to set downe at large the reasons so my dilatory answering your Grace.
   • Or that the subtle glory broke Thro' my strong and shielding wings, Bearing to my finite essence Incapacious of their presence Infinite imaginings
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   1. 4

      Incapacitating.

      • […] Agamben insists, one can still see even in darkness where what one sees is the colour of incapacity. […] Deleuzian obscurity is, like Agamben's incapacious darkness, a darkness that allows one to see.

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