incapacious
形容词 adj.
英文释义
形容词 adj.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Insufficient.
— […] by buzzing them into popular eares and capaci- ties, incapacious of them, unable to comprehend them.
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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.
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From in- + capacious.
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