capacitate
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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 Frederick William Robertson
For as soon as two reflex arcs capacitate it mechanically to swim toward light, it was no longer exactly like a pinwheel; it could respond specifically toward at least one thing in its environment.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
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
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
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 Daniel Defoe
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 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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
