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Definition of Capacitate

1. Verb. Make legally capable or qualify in law.

2. Verb. Cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg.

3. Verb. Make capable. "This instruction capacitates us to understand the problem"

Definition of Capacitate

1. v. t. To render capable; to enable; to qualify.

Definition of Capacitate

1. Verb. (transitive) To make capable. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive zoology) To alter sperm to allow to fertilize eggs. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Capacitate

1. [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Capacitate

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Literary usage of Capacitate

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1. Discourses Upon the Existence and Attributes of God by Stephen Charnock, William Symington (1874)
"... he can put a new and a royal spirit into him (Ezek. xxxvi. 26). God only can infuse habits into the soul, to capacitate it to act nobly and generously. ..."

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