capacitate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

capacitate
    v 1: make legally capable or qualify in law
    2: cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary
       to fertilize an egg
    3: make capable; "This instruction capacitates us to understand
       the problem"

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Capacitate \Ca*pac"i*tate\ (k[.a]*p[a^]s"[i^]*t[=a]t), v. t.
   [imp. & p. p. {Capacitated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Capacitating}.]
   To render capable; to enable; to qualify.
   [1913 Webster]

         By this instruction we may be capaciated to observe
         those errors.                            --Dryden.
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