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predisabled

adj

Etymology

From pre- + disabled.

  1. derived from habilis — “easily managed, held, or handled; apt; skillful”
  2. derived from abile
  3. derived from able
  4. inherited from able
  5. formed as disable — “dis- + able”
  6. suffixed as disabled — “disable + ed”
  7. formed as predisabled — “pre- + disabled”

Definitions

  1. Not yet disabled

    Not yet disabled; prior to being disabled.

    • The State apparatus needs, at its summit as at its base, predisabled people, preexisting amputees, the stillborn, the congenitally infirm, the one-eyed and one-armed. Thus there is a tempting three-part hypothesis: the war machine is […]
    • Frailty, a characteristic typically ascribed to a subset of older adults, has been described as “a predisabled' state.” […] A key distinction is that it is possible to be frail without specific diagnosed disabilities.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for predisabled. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA