capacitate
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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to make legally competent
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rare to make capable
Other Word Forms
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
For as soon as two reflex arcs capacitate it mechanically to swim toward light, it was no longer exactly like a pinwheel; it could respond specifically toward at least one thing in its environment.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
The Pundit says that “her beauty, her enthusiasm, her graces, and her genius, alike capacitate her to propagate and support the errors of which she herself is the victim.”
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald
He is certainly a valuable Gentleman, has a noble Soul, and Sense and Knowledge enough to capacitate him to serve his King and Country both in Peace and War.
God intended man to be a free agent, who should choose for himself the part he would act; and endowed him with a self determining power, to capacitate him to choose.
From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Andrew Lee
As it is swept along the distal uterine tube, the oocyte encounters the surviving capacitated sperm, which stream toward it in response to chemical attractants released by the cells of the corona radiata.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
If this is so, we are still at the most primitive stage, still fumbling with language and thinking, but infinitely capacitated for the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
The older men, who remained behind, who were also indispensable for the daily work of the field and workshop, were not especially capacitated to do valiant service in arms.
From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag
If we are not told what this is; if some tangible evidence be not offered to the human mind; how shall we feel ourselves capacitated to judge whether or not its existence be even possible?
From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
Hereafter, always, it will be my endeavour to live worthily of you—to be all that you have, in your more than charity, capacitated me to be.
From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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