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

To capacitate the tool to cut a groove close up to a shoulder, it should be forged to the shape shown in Fig.

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

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 P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

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