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or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak.

Confined to the bed by sickness or infirmity. "Her decrepit, sick, and bedrid father." Shak. "The estate of a bedridden old gentleman." Macaulay.

inherent in, the constitution, or in the structure of body or mind; as, a constitutional infirmity; constitutional ardor or dullness.

Distinction by contrast. That there are such things as sins of infirmity in contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be questioned. South.

ndness. It has various forms and degrees. So called from the chemist Dalton, who had this infirmity. Nichol.

To cause to decay; to impair. [R.] Infirmity, that decays the wise. Shak.

Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.

g short; a becoming deficient; failure; deficiency; imperfection; weakness; lapse; fault; infirmity; as, a mental failing. And ever in her mind she cas about For that unnoticed failing in herself. Tennyson.

The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.

The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, [and] pities our weakness. Locke.

Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.

The condition of an invalid; sickness; infirmity.

Want of health; infirmity. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.

oo large, or too aged, for; as, to outgrow clothing; to outgrow usefulness; to outgrow an infirmity.

ds to action; an incitement. Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days. Milton.

as, to stop the execution of a decree, the progress of vice, the approaches of old age or infirmity. Whose disposition all the world well knows Will not be rubbed nor stopped. Shak.

der any calamity or strait whatsoever. South. Ulysses made use of the pretense of natural infirmity to conceal the straits he was in at that time in his thoughts. Broome.

To impair or disquality on account of age or infirmity. Sir T. Browne.

Infirmity; weakness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.