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
To capacitate the tool to cut a groove close up to a shoulder, it should be forged to the shape shown in Fig.
From Project Gutenberg
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 Project Gutenberg
This shows us that more labour and diligence is required in such as would capacitate themselves for those offices than for anything else.”
From Project Gutenberg
And these graces have the greatest suitableness to capacitate and dispose every man for taking, and keeping the yoke of Christ.
From Project Gutenberg
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