verb transitiveWord forms: caˈpaciˌtated or caˈpaciˌtating
Rare
to prepare, fit, or qualify
Word origin
capacity + -ate1
capacitate in American English
(kəˈpæsɪˌteit)
transitive verbWord forms: -tated, -tating
to make capable; enable
Derived forms
capacitation
noun
Word origin
[1645–55; capacit(y) + -ate1]This word is first recorded in the period 1645–55. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: elastic, halftone, herringbone, simmer, soup-ate is a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution parallelingthat of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added to a- stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin(calibrate; acierate)
Examples of 'capacitate' in a sentence
capacitate
The study recommends higher education institutions to pragmatically capacitate supervisors and implement rigorous institutional doctoral transformation programmes.
Israel Kariyana, Reynold A. Sonn, Newlin Marongwe 2017, 'Objectivity of the subjective quality: Convergence on competencies expected of doctoralgraduates', Cogent Educationhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2017.1390827. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)