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  • verb Present participle of disenable.

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Examples

  • So you are embarrassed by McCain, but you say nothing about how you feel about Obama in cahoots with ACORN to steal votes to the tune of $800,00, or Obama's campaign disenabling credit card security settings so they can accept illegal campaign contributions in the millions from made up people, domestic and foreign, both of which contravene election law.

    Image of an RNC mailer used by the Obama campaign to raise money. Ann Althouse 2008

  • This Order, therefore, may prove a nursing-mother to sects, but I shall easily show how it will be a step-dame to Truth: and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • This Order, therefore, may prove a nursing-mother to sects, but I shall easily show how it will be a step-dame to Truth: and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already.

    Areopagitica 2007

  • ” This order therefore may prove a nursing mother to sects, but I shall easily show how it will be a step-dame to truth: and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already.

    Areopagitica: A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing: Paras 1-19 1909

  • In the Estates of January 5, 1649, Argyll, whose party had a large majority, and the fanatical Johnston of Waristoun (who made private covenants with Jehovah) demanded disenabling Acts against all who had in any degree been tainted by the _Engagement_ for the rescue of the king.

    A Short History of Scotland Andrew Lang 1878

  • This Order, therefore, may prove a nursing-mother to sects, but I shall easily show how it will be a step-dame to Truth: and first by disenabling us to the maintenance of what is known already.

    Areopagitica A speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England John Milton 1641

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