capacitate

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

verb make legally capable or qualify in law
verb cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg
verb make capable

From capacity + -ate.

Henry Cary was "well skill'd in the modern languages, and a general scholar"; and thus "was capacitated [by a forced retiredness in the troublesome times of Rebellion] to exercise himself in studies, while others of the nobility were fain to truckle to their inferiors for company sake." — Microcosmography: or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters, John Earle

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