Noah Webster
Impotence
IM'POTENCE,
IM'POTENCY, noun [Latin impotentia; in and potentia, from possum. See Power.]
1. 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.
2. Moral inability; the want of power or inclination to resist
or overcome habits and natural propensities.
3. Inability to beget.
4. Ungovernable passion; a Latin signification. [Little Used.]