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wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; feeling of censure. We have ever expressed the most unqualified disapprobation of all the steps. Burke.

The act of disqualifying, or state of being disqualified; want of qualification; incompetency; disability; as, the disqualification of men for holding certain offices.

on illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift. Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society. Southey.

laborate essay; dissertation. For accurate research or grave disquisition he was not well qualified. Macaulay.

An academical title, originally meaning a men so well versed in his department as to be qualified to teach it. Hence: One who has taken the highest degree conferred by a university or college, or has received a diploma of the highest degree; as, a doctor of divinity, of law, of medicine, of music, or of philosophy. Suc…

Hence, specifically, in any country, a person legally qualified to vote.

That may be selected; proper or qualified to be chosen; legally qualified to be elected and to hold office.

The quality worthy or qualified to be chosen; suitableness; desirableness.

nted by a court to return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coroners are disqualified.

Without mixture or alloy of anything; unqualified; morally whole; pure; faithful. Pure fear and entire cowardice. Shak. No man had ever a heart more entire to the king. Clarendon.

Qualified for war; fit for battle. An host of fighting men. 2 Chron. xxvi. 11.

ble by nature or by art; suited by character, qualitties, circumstances, education, etc.; qualified; competent; worthy. That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. Shak. Fit audience find, though few. Milton.

Fit; qualified; also, apt. [Obs.] Spenser.

Qualified or entitled. [Obs.] Bacon.

Qualified to inherit; capable of inheriting.

Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor under the government.

Not eligible; not qualified to be chos Burke.

Unskilled; unready; awkward; incompetent; unqualified; -- said of person. [Obs.] See Unable.

ssue male. Blackstone. Inheritable blood, blood or relationship by which a person becomes qualified to be an heir, or to transmit possessions by inheritance.

natural divine influence on the prophets, apostles, or sacred writers, by which they were qualified to communicate moral or religious truth with authority; a supernatural influence which qualifies men to receive and communicate divine truth; also, the truth communicated. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. 2…