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
The pin must be an accurate fit to the hole, and to capacitate one tool for various sizes of holes the bit is made interchangeable.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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
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
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
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
Society will unquestionably prove one considerable source of the happiness of heaven, where immortal beings will be so circumstanced and capacitated, as both to receive and impart enjoyment.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox
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
Note, These Pieces will by these means lose their bloody Parts, in great measure, and be capacitated to receive the Salt much better than otherways, and then put them up.
From The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Richard Bradley
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