To make unable; to deprive of ability or power to do something; to disable or render incapable.
From dis- (reversal/negation) + enable (from en- + able, meaning to make able). This archaic word means to strip away someone's capability or resources.
Shakespeare and other Renaissance writers used 'disenable' to describe how misfortune or injury could strip a person of their faculties—it's a more poetic predecessor to our modern word 'disable.'
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