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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.
While the crowd are nestling into their places, the lawyers, preparatory to striking the first blow, are bustling round within the incapacious bar, each viewed with the eye of admiration by about half of the assembled multitude , and each viewed with the eye of scorn by about the other half .
The high land values which forced the architects of the first cities to sacrifice the true architectural effect for long fac5ades, with no appreciable depth behind them, have now rendered the buildings of a hundred years ago too low and incapacious.
For chemical reactions , proceeding in gs-micelles of NCPM, it is sufficient that large s-nanopores and incapacious ν-nanopores differ by structural-mechanical and thermodynamic properties.
Can art be so dim-sighted, learnèd sir? I did not think her so incapacious.
When Nature has doom'd him among the incapacious and silly, 't is not in the power of correction or instruction, or in all the arts, to cure him.
The mute is linguistically incapacious; he cannot talk because he cannot think and consequently is silent in all languages. The mute is incapacious in oral language.
Beginning the poem with a generalized, second-person "You" suggests that Yearsley is addressing several "incapacious souls " who see the world through narrow lenses and " optics dim."
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Incapacious means Small; narrow; cramped; unable to hold or allow the passage of very much..
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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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