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
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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
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
Is it, that men have life in them first, to capacitate them to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man?
From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by A. J. (Alexander John) Scott
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 Percy Bysshe Shelley
Breast-drills do not possess enough driving power to capacitate them for drills of above about quarter inch in diameter, for which various forms of drill cranks are employed.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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 wives of the planters as well as their husbands were capacitated to own land, because, in a new world, a woman might turn out to be as efficient as the man.
From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Julian Hawthorne
This could be evidently proved by an understanding capacitated to rate all the action and re-action, of the minds and bodies of those who contributed to the revolution.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
If particles of iron, sulphur, and water be mixed together, these bodies thus capacitated to act on each other, are heated by degrees, and ultimately produce a violent combustion.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
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