cannot

Definition

Can not; be unable to (whether due to physical inability, logical impossibility, etc).

Etymology

From can + not.

Example Sentences

• "I cannot open the window. It is stuck."
• "The butler cannot be the murderer, he cannot have killed her, because he was in another city at the time."
• "The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt."