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Incompetency (medicine) and acridine (iou)


Incompetency (medicine)


incompetency


1. The quality or state of being incompetent; want of physical, intellectual, or moral ability; insufficiency; inadequacy; as, the incompetency of a child hard labour, or of an idiot for intellectual efforts. "Some inherent incompetency."

2. 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.

Synonym: Inability, insufficiency, inadequacy, disqualification, incapability, unfitness.

Origin: Cf. F. Incompetence.

Source: Websters Dictionary


acridine (iou)



acridine noun. L19.
[German Acridin, formed as ACRID: see -IDINE.]
Chemistry. A colourless crystalline heteroaromatic compound, C13H9N, obtained from coal tar and from which the structures of many dyes and pharmaceuticals are derived.