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
- capacitation noun
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
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 MacDonald, Daniel J.
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 Lee, Andrew
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 Park, Robert Ezra
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
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