Want of strength or power, animal or intellectual; weakness; feebleness; inability; imbecility; defect of power, natural or adventitious, to perform any thing. Some were poor by the impotency of nature; as young fatherless children, old decrepit persons, idiots and cripples. The impotence of exercising animal motion attends fevers.

Moral inability; the want of power or inclination to resist or overcome habits and natural propensities.

Inability to beget.

Ungovernable passion; a Latin signification. [Little used.