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
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
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
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 Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
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
Hereafter, always, it will be my endeavour to live worthily of you—to be all that you have, in your more than charity, capacitated me to be.
From Words of Cheer for the Tempted, the Toiling, and the Sorrowing by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)
This could be evidently proved by an understanding capacitated to rate all the action and re-action, of the minds and bodies of those who contributed to the revolution.
From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
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 Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
