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 physician's art again is no supernatural mystery; long and careful study of physical laws capacitate him for his task.
From Sermons Preached at Brighton Third Series by Frederick William Robertson
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 Joshua Rose
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
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 Robert Ezra Park
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
Men of large muscles and small nerves can never perform feats of great strength; but they have the power of endurance, and are better capacitated for continued labor.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
The wives of the planters as well as their husbands were capacitated to own land, because, in a new world, a woman might turn out to be as efficient as the man.
From The History of the United States from 1492 to 1910, Volume 1 From Discovery of America October 12, 1492 to Battle of Lexington April 19, 1775 by Julian Hawthorne
We shall then be capacitated to reply to those who pretend that without them there can he no morality.
From The System of Nature, Volume 2 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach
