- The quality or state of being incompetent; want of
physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy;
as, the incompetency of a child hard labor, or of an idiot for
intellectual efforts. - Want of competency or legal fitness; incapacity;
disqualification, as of a person to be heard as a witness, or to act as
a juror, or of a judge to try a cause.
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