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

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

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

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

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)