• DISABILITY

by circumlocution. He confesses his disability, confitetur se non posse. To lie under a disability of doing anything, aliquid non posse: to lie under a disability in consequence of anything, aliqua re parum posse (e.g., ingenio). To lie under a legal disability, legibus vetari; jure prohiberi: to acknowledge no disability, nihil non se efficere posse ducere. [Vid: To DISABLE.] Sometimes imbecillitas; infirmitas (weakness) may serve (as in “the understanding is conscious of its disability”).