capacitate (kapas it at)

t.; pret. and pp. capacitated, ppr. capacitating. [ enable. IMG:content-3076.png:[blocks in formation] Specifically- 2. To furnish with legal powers; qualify: as, to capacitate one for an office. capacitation (kā-pas-i-ta's hon), n. [ capасі tate : see- ation .] The act of making capable. [Rare.] capacity (kā-pas'i-ti), n.; pl. capacities (-tiz). [F. capacité = Pr. capacitat = Sp. capaci dad = Pg. capacidade = It. capacità, Our globe is sailing on through space, like some huge ocean steamer, whose capacity coal is strictly limited. R. D. Hitch cock , Addre 48th Anniv. Un. Theol. Sem. 2. Receptivity; susceptibility to being pa ively affected in any way; power of receiving impre ions, or of being acted upon. Faculty is properly limited to active power, and, therefore, is abusively applied to the mere pa ive affections of mind. Capacity , on the other hand, is more properly limited to these. Its primary signification, which is literally room for, as well as its employment, favors this; although it cannot be denied that there are examples of its usage in an active sense. Leibnitz, as far as I know, was the first who limited its psychological application to the pa ivities of mind.. The active [power] may be called faculty, and perhaps the pa ive might be called capacity, or receptivity. Sir W. Hamilton, Metaphysics, Bowen's Abridgment, viii. Capacity signifies greater pa ivene or receptivity than. [power or faculty). Hence it is more usually applied to that in the soul by which it does or can suffer, or to dormant and inert po ibilities to be aroused to exertions of strength or skill, or to make striking advances through education and habit. N. Porter, Human Intellect, § 36. 3. Active power; ability: as, mental capacity ; the capacity of a substance to resist pre ure. Hate, and fear, and remorse, and crime have in them the capacity of stirring in us a horror of moral repugnance such as pagan art had no means of awakening. J. Caird. Man's capacities have never been measured. Thoreau , Walden, p. 12. Powhatan gaue him Namontack his trustie servant, and one of a shrewd, subtill capacitie . Quoted in Capt . John Smith , True Travels, I. 167. 4. Ability in a moral or legal sense; legal qualification; legal power or right: as, a man or a corporation may have a capacity to give or receive and hold estate; A was present at the meeting in his capacity of director (that is, in virtue of his legal qualification as a director). Ouer that, that the same Master and Wardeyns, and their succe ours, shuld be perpetuall and haue capacite . English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 310. He had been restored to his capacity of governing by renouncing the errors of Popery. Brougham. Hence-5. Character; profe ion; occupation; function. You desire my thoughts as a friend, and not as a mem Swift , ber of parliament; they are the same in both capacities. 6t. A license; authorization. They gave the monks leave to depart, and most of them, they said, desired capacities or licenses to depart to be granted to them, though some desired to be a igned to other places of religion. R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., v. Breathing capacity. Same as differential capacity . Capacity for heat, the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of any object one degree, being the product of its ma into its specific heat. Also sometimes used as a synonym of specific heat , when it is generally called the specific capacity for heat. - Capacity of a conductor, in elect ., the quantity of electricity required to raise its potential from zero to unity. The capacity of a sphere is proportional to its radius, and in the C. G. S. system is numerically equal to its radius expre ed in centimeters. The capacity is increased by proximity to a charge of an opposite kind, as is shown by a condenser 802 like the Leyden jar. The unit of capacity is the farad, or, practically, the microfarad. See farad. - Differential capacity, extreme differential capacity, or vital capacity, the amount of air which can be expelled from the lungs by the greatest po ible expiration after the greatest po ible inspiration. It is usually about 214 cu bic inches. - Specific inductive capacity, in elect., the ratio of capacity of an accumulator formed of the di electric substance whose specific capacity is spoken of to the capacity of an accumulator of the same form and size filled with air. - Standard measure of capacity. See measure. - Thermal capacity of a body, in thermody namics, the quantity of heat required raise its temperature by one degree on the absolute thermodynamic scale. Sir W. Thomson, Encyc. Brit., XI. 576. - Vital ca pacity. Same as differential capacity. =Syn. 1. Dimensions.-3. Aptitude, Faculty (see genius ), turn, forte, aptpost, ne ; function. Ability, Capacity (see ability ). - 5. Office, sphere,