Both Uses of
incapacitate
in
Don Quixote
- for by my faith, señor, the poor man is incapacitated from showing the virtue of generosity to anyone, though he may possess it in the highest degree;†
Chpt 1.49-50 *
- and had it not been for the extraordinary fancies of Don Quixote, and his conviction that the bachelor was not the bachelor, señor bachelor would have been incapacitated for ever from taking his degree of licentiate, all through not finding nests where he thought to find birds.†
Chpt 2.15-16
Definition:
make unable to perform a certain action