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

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 P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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

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 Morley, Henry

God intended man to be a free agent, who should choose for himself the part he would act; and endowed him with a self determining power, to capacitate him to choose.

From Sermons on Various Important Subjects by Lee, Andrew