Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

disability

disability , noun

1.
State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.
Grossest faults, or disabilities to perform what was covenanted. — Milton
Chatham refused to see him, pleading his disability. — Bancroft
2.
Want of legal qualification to do a thing; legal incapacity or incompetency.
The disabilities of idiocy, infancy, and coverture. — Abbott