capacitate

Example Sentences

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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

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 Park, Robert Ezra

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

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.

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