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

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)

The Pundit says that “her beauty, her enthusiasm, her graces, and her genius, alike capacitate her to propagate and support the errors of which she herself is the victim.”

From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.

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

And these graces have the greatest suitableness to capacitate and dispose every man for taking, and keeping the yoke of Christ.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh