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
To capacitate the tool to cut a groove close up to a shoulder, it should be forged to the shape shown in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
Of the thirty books there are only fragments extant; but these are so numerous, that though they do not capacitate us to catch the full spirit of the poet, we perceive something of his manner.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop
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
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.
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
Would you not be better capacitated for business, labor or pleasure?
From Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. by Civiale Remedial Agency
We are capacitated for enjoyments of a higher and more perfect nature than we can attain to on earth.
From Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation by John Bovee Dods
It is to be noticed also, that there is no sex in conscience, and that for the discharge of the duties of piety, each is equally capacitated, and therefore equally responsible.
From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox
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