destituent

comparative more destituent · superlative most destituent

1. obsoleteDeficient; lacking.

   a destituent condition

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   When any condition intrinsically and in the nature of the thing included in an affirmative precept is destituent or wanting , the duty itself falls without interpretation

   1660, Jeremy Taylor, Ductor Dubitantium, or the Rule of Conscience in All Her General Measures; […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] James Flesher, for Richard Royston […], →OCLC

   Constituent assemblies in the very changeable region of the state have already so proved themselves destituent (destituerende), that the attempt to transfer them to the sacred soil of the Church might seem an insanity, which could not be expected from a theologian.

   1884, Ernst Sartorius, The Doctrine of Divine Love, Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, →OL, page 302

   Unfortunately, only 24 states and the District of Columbia were able to provide sufficient matching payments to allow destituent participants in the aid-to-dependent-children program to meet their basic needs.

   1967, FCL Newsletter, volumes 16–19, →ISSN, page 6