capacitate

Example Sentences

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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

This shows us that more labour and diligence is required in such as would capacitate themselves for those offices than for anything else.”

From The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Morley, Henry

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

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

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)