disability Copy link Outline I. Want of abilityII. Inability for offices, honours, etc. • disability: I. Want of ability: v. inability. II. Inability for offices, honours, etc.: perh. dēmĭnūtio: with some defining word, as d. libertatis, Cic. Rull. 2, 7, 16; d. capitis (including various degrees of inferiority in civil status): v. Dict. Ant. s. v. caput. Phr.: those who labour under some civil d., quibus pars aliqua juris deminuta est, Cic.: to regard as a civil d., aliquid de libertate deminutum putare, Cic.: the children of the proscribed had been placed under a d. as regards offices, *proscriptorum liberi honorum petendorum jure privati erant (Nobbe).