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capacitate, v.|kəˈpæsɪteɪt|
[f. capacity + -ate; see -acitate and -ate3 7.]
1. a. trans. To endow with capacity for or to do (something); to render capable; to qualify, fit.
1657Cromwell Sp. 8 Apr. (Carlyle) You can capacitate me to receive satisfaction in them. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. ii. (1681) 10 It capacitates all sorts of Land..for some of the Improvements mentioned. 1704Swift T. Tub Pref., He will please to capacitate and prepare himself by these directions. 1710Norris Chr. Prud. iv. 175 This Temper that naturally qualifies and capacitates us for Happiness. 1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. iii. (1872) 32 Long and careful study..capacitates him for his task.
absol.1692Villiers (Dk. Buckhm.), Chances (1714) 177 A Fund which might capacitate to make you Presents of my own.
b. Physiol. To cause (a spermatozoon) to undergo capacitation (see next).
1957Nature 2 Feb. 258/2 ‘Capacitated’ sperm were obtained from rabbits that had either been mated normally or inseminated with epididymal sperm. Ibid. 259/2 Epididymal sperm has to be capacitated. 1969Ibid. 6 Sept. 1042/1 The Fallopian tube fluid is still effective in capacitating sperm even when heavily diluted with a simple chemical medium.
2. To make legally capable; to qualify in law.
1657Cromwell Sp. 21 Apr. (Carlyle) It seems to capacitate all those who revolted from the parliament [to elect or be elected]. 1686Evelyn Mem. (1857) II. 273, 2nd March Came out a proclamation..capacitating Papists to be chosen into all offices of trust. c1792Wilkes Corr. (1805) V. 190 To admit all the other sectaries to be capacitated equally with the members of the church of England.
Hence caˈpacitated ppl. a., caˈpacitating vbl. n. and ppl. a.
a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. ix. 417 The capacitating of man for converse with God. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 270 Being conveighed into a proper capacitated Matrix. |