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 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
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
The physician's art again is no supernatural mystery; long and careful study of physical laws capacitate him for his task.
From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson
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
Hereafter, always, it will be my endeavour to live worthily of you—to be all that you have, in your more than charity, capacitated me to be.
From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
How could he comprehend, that a fugitive idea, an imperceptible act of thought, was so frequently capacitated to bring his whole being into trouble and confusion?
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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