capacitate

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

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 Karl Ludwig von P?llnitz

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 Joshua Rose

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

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

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

The older men, who remained behind, who were also indispensable for the daily work of the field and workshop, were not especially capacitated to do valiant service in arms.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVIIIth and XIXth Centuries, Vol. II. by Gustav Freytag

How could he comprehend, that a fugitive idea, an imperceptible act of thought, was so frequently capacitated to bring his whole being into trouble and confusion?

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