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 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 Robertson, Frederick William
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
Is it, that men have life in them first, to capacitate them to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man?
From Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 by Scott, A. J. (Alexander John)
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 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
But because by doing and acting, the heart, and every faculty of the soul is enlarged, and more capacitated, whereby more room is made for glory.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by Bunyan, John
It is not pretence of doing God the greatest service, or performing the weightiest duty, that will excuse the least sin, though that sin capacitated or gave us the opportunity for doing that duty.
From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
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 Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
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