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capacitate

[kuh-pas-i-teyt] / kəˈpæs ɪˌteɪt /




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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

And these graces have the greatest suitableness to capacitate and dispose every man for taking, and keeping the yoke of Christ.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

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 Henry Morley

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.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume I Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

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

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

He should be told that after a large meal he is less capacitated for exertion than a man who has not a damaged heart.

From Disturbances of the Heart by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

If we are not told what this is; if some tangible evidence be not offered to the human mind; how shall we feel ourselves capacitated to judge whether or not its existence be even possible?

From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach

Note, These Pieces will by these means lose their bloody Parts, in great measure, and be capacitated to receive the Salt much better than otherways, and then put them up.

From The Country Housewife and Lady's Director in the Management of a House, and the Delights and Profits of a Farm by Richard Bradley




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