The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capacitate \Ca*pac"i*tate\ (k[.a]*p[a^]s"[i^]*t[=a]t), v. t. To render capable; to enable; to qualify.
By this instruction we may be capaciated to observe
those errors.
--Dryden.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, from Latin capacitas (see capacity) + -ate (2). Related: Capacitation.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make capable. 2 (context transitive zoology English) To alter sperm to allow to fertilize eggs.
WordNet
v. make legally capable or qualify in law
cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg
make capable; "This instruction capacitates us to understand the problem"
Usage examples of "capacitate".
He was, therefore, capacitated to lead his fellow men successfully into avenues of thought and perception impossible to describe.
He told, too, the which I had almost forgot, how Diabolus had put the town of Mansoul into arms, the better to capacitate them, on his behalf, to make resistance against Shaddai their King, should he come to reduce them to their former obedience.
Each higher fulcrum is an emergent that brings new capacitates, new desires, new cognitions, new motivations, and new pathologies that cannot be reduced to, or explained by, the birth fulcrum.
It is evident, that we can answer none of these questions, without considering which of those qualities capacitates a man best for the world, and carries him farthest in any undertaking.
If she died or were in capacitated, Baynes and Moss would die too: inevitably, slowly, and painfully.
But if the Druid was in capacitated, how were the rest of them supposed to function reli ably knowing as little as they did?
Now, I do affirm, it will be absolutely impossible for the candid peruser to go along with me in a great many bright passages, unless upon the several difficulties emergent, he will please to capacitate and prepare himself by these directions.