Incapacious

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Small; narrow; cramped; unable to hold or allow the passage of very much.

    "It is a contrast, to be contemplated with grateful emotions, that in a place where a century ago twenty-five families gathered in an incapacious wooden edifice to lift their hearts and voices to God , and to praise him in the forms of the Liturgy , there are now to be found at least a thousand families , and nearly two thousand communicants , cherishing the same Triune Jehovah, in larger, loftier, and more enduring or more costly temples."

  2. 2
    Not capable; having limited abilities; weak, incompetent, and/or foolish.

    "Can art be so dim-sighted, learnèd sir? I did not think her so incapacious."

  3. 3
    Small; limited, modest, lacking grandeur or nobility.

    "yet, inasmuch as he is capable of understanding the vast disproportions of time and eternity, of a mortal flesh and an immortal spirit, how preposterous a course were it and unworthy of a man, yea, how dishonourable and reproachful to his Maker, should he prefer the momentary pleasures of narrow, incapacious sense, to the everlasting enjoyments of an enlarged, comprehensive spirit?"

  4. 4
    Insufficient.

    "[…] by buzzing them into popular eares and capaci- ties, incapacious of them, unable to comprehend them."

  5. 5
    Incapacitating.

    "[…] Agamben insists, one can still see even in darkness where what one sees is the colour of incapacity. […] Deleuzian obscurity is, like Agamben's incapacious darkness, a darkness that allows one to see."

Etymology

From in- + capacious.

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