ppl. a. Obs. rare. [UN-1 8.]
1. Unqualified.
1497–8. in Archæol. Jrnl., XLIII. 163. It[e]m for a fyne lost by Will[ia]m Birchwold for settyng to werke a child vnabled & vnbound [= unapprenticed], xd.
1653. Gauden, Hierasp., 226. Compleating those sad effects, which disorderly, unordeined, unsent, and unabled Teachers … have already begun.
2. Not endowed with strength or vigor.
1597. Middleton, Wisd. Solomon, ii. 11. Wee are the cedars, they the mushromes bee, Vnabled shrubs, vnto an abled tree.
