Capacitate

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Capacitate \Ca*pac"i*tate\ (k[.a]*p[a^]s"[i^]*t[=a]t), v. t.
     [imp. & p. p. {Capacitated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Capacitating}.]
     To render capable; to enable; to qualify.
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           By this instruction we may be capaciated to observe


           those errors.                            --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  capacitate
       v 1: make legally capable or qualify in law
       2: cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes
          necessary to fertilize an egg
       3: make capable; "This instruction capacitates us to understand
          the problem"