Unfit v.

[UN-² 6.] trans. To render unfit; to disqualify.

1611.  Florio, Disadattare, to vnfit, to disorder.

1665.  Boyle, Occas. Refl., II. x. (1848), 128. I … esteem’d sickness more formidable for its unfitting me to learn.

1690.  Norris, Beatitudes (1692), 80. Consider again, How much causless … Anger unfits us for all the Parts of Divine Worship.

1779.  Mirror, No. 16. It may disqualify the mind for the more active … scenes of life, and unfit it for the enjoyments of ordinary society.

1847.  Helps, Friends in C. (1851), I. 36. To have erred in one branch of our duties does not unfit us for all the rest.

1898.  ‘Merriman,’ Roden’s Corner, vi. 57. Those whose birth and education unfit them for such pursuits.