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
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.
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
This shows us that more labour and diligence is required in such as would capacitate themselves for those offices than for anything else.”
From The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Morley, Henry
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 Rose, Joshua
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
Fourthly, Of the persons exercising that art in either capacity, of good or bad, and by what means they become capacitated to exercise it.
From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Defoe, Daniel
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 Hawthorne, Julian
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
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