- Incapacity to hold; hence, incapacity to hold back or
restrain; the quality or state of being incontinent; want of
continence; failure to restrain the passions or appetites; indulgence
of lust; lewdness. - The inability of any of the animal organs to restrain
the natural evacuations, so that the discharges are involuntary; as,
incontinence of urine.