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in or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable of holding a certain quantity of liquid; incapable of endurance, of comprehension, of perseverance, of reform, etc.

The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.

In an incapable manner.

Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul. Bp. Burnet. -- In`ca*pa"cious*ness, n.

To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.

The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification. Burke.

Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.

To inclose completely, as in a membrane.

The process of becoming, or the state or condition of being, incapsulated; as, incapsulation of the ovum in the uterus.

To confine; to shut up or inclose; to hem in. Incarcerated hernia (Med.), hernia in which the constriction can not be easily reduced.

The act of confining, or the state of being confined; imprisonment. Glanvill.

One who incarcerates.

To cover or invest with flesh. [R.] Wiseman.

an wash this blood Clean from my hand No; this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red. Shak.

Not in the flesh; spiritual. [Obs.] I fear nothing . . . that devil carnate or incarnate can fairly do. Richardson.

An incarnate form; a personification; a manifestation; a reduction to apparent from; a striking exemplification in person or act. She is a new incarnation of some of the illustrious dead. Jeffrey. The very incarnation of selfishness. F. W. Robertson.

An incarnative medicine.

The act of assuming, or state of being clothed with, flesh; incarnation.

To inclose in a case; to inclose; to cover or surround with something solid. Rich plates of gold the folding doors incase. Pope.

The act or process of inclosing with a case, or the state of being incased.