No vassal shall be allowed to sell so much of his land as to incapacitate himself from performing his service to his lord.
He also persuaded that prince to remain in quiet, and patiently to expect that time should open to him the inheritance of the crown, without pushing his friends on desperate enterprises, which would totally incapacitate them from serving him.
Alarmed at the danger, she thenceforth conceived a violent jealousy against the queen of Scots; and was determined, as far as possible, to incapacitate Henry from the execution of his project.
The image here is the hostage rescue team employing stun grenades to incapacitate an adversary, but on a far larger scale.
In MRC situations, we need to have the capability to defeat, destroy, or incapacitate an opponent.
Suppose there are "EMP-like" or High Powered Microwave (HPM) systems that can be fielded and provide broad ability to incapacitate even a relatively primitive society.
This, among other ill-effects, will, worst of all, incapacitate you from the appreciative enjoyment of healthy food.
It is hard to conceive any course of training which could more effectually incapacitate men for the business of war than that which these foolish Indians actually adopted.
It is obvious that the severe fasting coupled with the short sleep, or even the total sleeplessness, of these eagle-hunters can only impair their physical vigour and so far tend to incapacitate them for capturing the eagles.
Gloucester did not suffer the Parliament to dissolve without an order for the expulsion of the Bohemians who attended the queen, or without passing acts to incapacitate the king from reversing the attainders which they had issued.
He grew very tired and began to hope that he would receive wounds that might incapacitate him at least temporarily for service.
He thought of suicide, wanted a shell to incapacitate or kill him, began to have pains in the head, arms and legs, and was already groggy when a gas attack came.
I have here a bladder filled with nitrous oxide gas; I will breathe it once or twice, but not so far as to incapacitate me from continuing the lecture.
Whether I accompany him is uncertain; he is apprehensive that my health may incapacitate me.
Nothing was done that would incapacitate them for correct thinking.
Warner had a bandaged arm, but the wound was so slight that it would not incapacitate him.
Dick found that Warner and Pennington both had wounds, although they were too slight to incapacitate them.
If the circumstances will not permit this and the sag of the belt operates to practically incapacitate the belt for its duty, what is termed an idle wheel or idler may be employed as shown in Fig.
To make still more sure, the experiment was tried in the Bristol infirmary, a few weeks afterwards, on a man who had a rheumatic affection in the shoulder, so severe as to incapacitate him from lifting his hand from his knee.
His brother Alexius deposed him, and to incapacitate him from reigning, put out his eyes, and shut him up in a dungeon.
Ed volunteered to take the duty of camp guard upon himself all day every day, so long as his wound should incapacitate him for the hard work of chopping.
In the vicinity of a joint, it may interfere with movement; on the medial side of the knee it may incapacitate the patient from riding.
The disability varies in different cases, and it may incapacitate the patient from following his occupation or sport for weeks or, if imperfectly treated, even for months.
The old wasps have no stock of provisions: the benumbing hand of Winter is about to incapacitate them from exertion; while the season itself affords no supply.
That they had merely beaten him showed that their wish was only to incapacitate him temporarily.
Probably most of them were acquainted with Dunlavey's methods; some of them probably knew of the attempt that had been made to incapacitate Potter.
It has been imagined that the plan was to incapacitate him by law for employment, and to hold him a State prisoner.
His bias towards such a result must have been so strong as to incapacitate him, even beyond de Thou, for a neutral scrutiny of the facts.
In order toincapacitate his nephew Melor, son of the murdered Melyan, from menacing his throne, he had his right hand and one foot cut off, as by Celtic law no cripple or disfigured person is qualified to become a chief or a prince.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "incapacitate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
