The quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually

Usage examples of competency.

In sorcery, or music spells, competency was barely enough, and a mistake could be dangerous or fatal.

The secession ordinances were illegal, unconstitutional, not within the competency of the State, and therefore null and void from the beginning.

In regard to the competency of these vouchers, it will be sufficient simply to state that, amongst others whose names have been attached to their communications, are eight professors, in four different universities, twenty-one regular Physicians, nineteen Surgeons, thirty Clergymen, twelve of whom are Doctors of Divinity, and numerous other characters of equal respectability.

By competency they mean was I of sound mind and body, and under no duress, such as being held captive by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Hence if nine States had ratified the constitution, and the other four had stood out, and refused to do it, which was within their competency, they would not have been independent sovereign States, outside of the Union, but Territories under the Union.

State simply as a State out of the Union, they were within the competency of the State, were not illegal or unconstitutional, and therefore not null and void.

The duty of the President, when there are steps to be taken or things to be done which he believes very necessary, but which are not within his competency, is, if Congress is not in session, to call it together at the earliest practicable moment, and submit the matter to its wisdom and discretion.

This indicates a splendid all-round competency in theft, for it starts with farthings, and works its industries all the way up to ship-loads.

She had an aura of self-confidence and competency which he would absolutely shatter.

Unconstitutional, illegal, and not within the competency of the State, so far as intended to alienate any portion of the national domain and population thereto annexed, they certainly were, and so far were void and of no effect.

The Shepherd whom Dylan knew from twenty years of brotherhood and from ten years of daily caregiving was childlike, perhaps with all his faculties intact, but lacking the competency to apply them in any consistent fashion.

Ordinarily Brinker would have been aboard her own ship, the destroyer we had captured from the Carolines, but she was on the Sawfish now to help interview pirates and ascertain their competencies.

Some researchers have found that women more often report joy as they experience independence and new competencies (Riessman, 1990).

The nature of adolescent competencies predicted by preschool delay of gratification.

The outcome though would be not to allow any of the Services to divert general support money into core competencies and thereby shift the jointness burden to another Service.