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capacitate

[kuh-pas-i-tayt] / kəˈpæs ɪˌteɪt /




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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 Henry Morley

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 Percy Bysshe Shelley

Of the thirty books there are only fragments extant; but these are so numerous, that though they do not capacitate us to catch the full spirit of the poet, we perceive something of his manner.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by John Dunlop

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 Andrew Lee

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

This could be evidently proved by an understanding capacitated to rate all the action and re-action, of the minds and bodies of those who contributed to the revolution.

From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'Holbach

It is to be noticed also, that there is no sex in conscience, and that for the discharge of the duties of piety, each is equally capacitated, and therefore equally responsible.

From Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II by Francis Augustus Cox

I was naturally capacitated for fishing by my fondness for silence and solitude.

From Confessions of Boyhood by John Albee




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