capacitate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make legally competent
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rare to make capable
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Etymology
Origin of capacitate
First recorded in 1645–55; capacit(y) + -ate 1
Example Sentences
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In many cases the gyms really couldn’t even capacitate the crowd if everybody who belonged showed up.
From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2010
I believe that abstinence from animal food and spirituous liquors would, in a great measure, capacitate us for the solution of this important question.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
And these graces have the greatest suitableness to capacitate and dispose every man for taking, and keeping the yoke of Christ.
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh
I believe that abstinence from animal food and spirituous liquors would in a great measure capacitate us for the solution of this important question.
From A Vindication of Natural Diet. by Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Of the thirty books there are only fragments extant; but these are so numerous, that though they do not capacitate us to catch the full spirit of the poet, we perceive something of his manner.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John
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