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capacitate

[kuh-pas-i-tayt] / 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

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 A. J. (Alexander John) Scott

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 Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

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 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

We are capacitated for enjoyments of a higher and more perfect nature than we can attain to on earth.

From Twenty-Four Short Sermons On The Doctrine Of Universal Salvation by John Bovee Dods

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

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




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