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

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

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

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)