KJV Dictionary Definition: impotency

impotency

IM'POTENCY, n. L. impotentia; in and potentia, from possum. See Power.

1. Want of strength or power, animal or intellectual; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility; defect of power, natural or adventitious, to perform any thing.

Some were poor by the impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots and cripples.

The impotence of exercising animal motion attends fevers.

2. Moral inability; the want of power or inclination to resist

or overcome habits and natural propensities.

3. Inability to beget.

4. Ungovernable passion; a Latin signification. Little used.

impotent

IM'POTENT, a. L. impotens.

1. Weak; feeble; wanting strength or power; unable by nature, or disabled by disease or accident to perform any act.

I know thou wast not slow to hear,

Nor impotent to save.

2. Wanting the power of propagation, as males.

3. Wanting the power of restraint; not having the command over; as impotent of tongue.

IM'POTENT, n. One who is feeble, infirm, or languishing under disease.

impotently

IM'POTENTLY, adv. Weakly; without power over the passions.