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Dictionary Results for impotence:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
impotence
    n 1: the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and
         feeble [syn: powerlessness, impotence, impotency]
         [ant: power, powerfulness]
    2: an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate [syn:
       impotence, impotency] [ant: potence, potency]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Impotence \Im"po*tence\, Impotency \Im"po*ten*cy\, n. [L.
   impotenia inability, poverty, lack of moderation. See
   Impotent.]
   1. The quality or condition of being impotent; lack of
      strength or power, animal, intellectual, or moral;
      weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility.
      [1913 Webster]

            Some were poor by impotency of nature; as young
            fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots,
            and cripples.                         --Hayward.
      [1913 Webster]

            O, impotence of mind in body strong!  --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Lack of self-restraint or self-control. [R.] --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Law & Med.) Lack of procreative power; inability to
      copulate, or beget children; also, sometimes, sterility;
      barrenness; specifically, in males: the inability to
      achieve or sustain a penile erection; erectile
      dysfunction.
      [1913 Webster +PJC]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
IMPOTENCE, med. jur. The incapacity for copulation or propagating the 
species. It has also been used synonymously with sterility. 
     2. Impotence may be considered as incurable, curable, accidental or 
temporary. Absolute or incurable impotence, is that for which there is no 
known relief, principally originating in some malformation or defect of the 
genital organs. Where this defect existed at the time of the marriage, and 
was incurable, by the ecclesiastical law and the law of several of the 
American states, the marriage may be declared void ab initio. Com. Dig. 
Baron and Feme, C 3; Bac. Ab. Marriage, &c., E 3; 1 Bl. Com. 440; Beck's 
Med. Jur. 67; Code, lib. 5, t. 17, l. 10; Poyn. on Marr. and Div. ch. 8; 5 
Paige, 554; Merl. Rep. mot Impuissance. But it seems the party naturally 
impotent cannot allege that fact for the purpose of obtaining a divorce. 3 
Phillim. R. 147; S. C. 1 Eng. Eccl. R. 384. See 3 Phillim. R. 325; S. C. 1 
Eng. Eccl. R. 408; 1 Chit. Med. Jur. 877; 1 Par. & Fonb. 172, 173. note d; 
Ryan's Med. Jur. 95. to 111; 1 Bl. Com. 440; 2 Phillim. R. 10; 1 Hagg. R. 
725. See, as to the signs of impotence, 1 Briand, Med. Leg. c. 2, art. 2, 
Sec. 2, n. 1; Dictionnaire des Sciences Medicales, art. Impuissance; and, 
generally, Trebuchet, Jur. de la. Med. 100, 101, 102; 1 State Tr. 315; 8 
State Tr. App. No. 1, p. 23; 3 Phillm. R. 147; 1 Hagg. Eccl. R. 523; Fodere, 
Med. Leg. Sec. 237. 



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