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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Capacified ] [ L. capax, -acis, capacious + -fy. ] To quality. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The benefice he is capacified and designed for. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. capax, -acis, fr. capere to take. See Heave. ] 1. Having capacity; able to contain much; large; roomy; spacious; extended; broad; as, a capacious vessel, room, bay, or harbor. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the capacious recesses of his mind. Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Able or qualified to make large views of things, as in obtaining knowledge or forming designs; comprehensive; liberal. “A capacious mind.” Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a capacious manner or degree; comprehensively. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored.
Syn. -- electrical capacity, capacity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. (Electronics) a measure of the ability of a capacitor to store electrical charge; the ratio of the charge on one plate of a capacitor to the potential difference between the plates. [ PJC ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to capacitance. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a device used in electronic circuits to hold electrical charge, consisting of two conducting plates separated by a nonconducting (dielectric) medium; it is characterized by its capacitance.
Syn. -- condenser, electrical condenser. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n.; pl. Capacities [ L. capacitus, fr. capax, capacis; fr. F. capacité. See Capacious. ] 1. The power of receiving or containing; extent of room or space; passive power; -- used in reference to physical things. [ 1913 Webster ]

Had our great palace the capacity
To camp this host, we all would sup together. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The capacity of the exhausted cylinder. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The power of receiving and holding ideas, knowledge, etc.; the comprehensiveness of the mind; the receptive faculty; capability of understanding or feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capacity is now properly limited to these [ the mere passive operations of the mind ]; its primary signification, which is literally room for, as well as its employment, favors this; although it can not be denied that there are examples of its usage in an active sense. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Ability; power pertaining to, or resulting from, the possession of strength, wealth, or talent; possibility of being or of doing. [ 1913 Webster ]

The capacity of blessing the people. Alex. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A cause with such capacities endued. Blackmore. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Outward condition or circumstances; occupation; profession; character; position; as, to work in the capacity of a mason or a carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Law) Legal or moral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, wills, etc.; legal power or right; competency. [ 1913 Webster ]

Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing heat. Substances differ in the amount of heat requisite to raise them a given number of thermometric degrees, and this difference is the measure of, or depends upon, what is called their capacity for heat. See Specific heat, under Heat.

Syn. -- Ability; faculty; talent; capability; skill; efficiency; cleverness. See Ability. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of capacity; to incapacitate. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + capacious: cf. L. incapax incapable. ] Not capacious; narrow; small; weak or foolish; as, an incapacious soul. Bp. Burnet. -- In`ca*pa"cious*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Incapacitated p. pr. & vb. n. Incapacitating ] [ Pref. in- not + capacitate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify. [ 1913 Webster ]

It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. causing disability.
Syn. -- crippling, disabling. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Incapacities [ Cf. F. incapacité. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Lack of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Lack of legal ability or competency to do, give, transmit, or receive something; inability; disqualification; as, the inacapacity of minors to make binding contracts, etc.

Syn. -- Inability; incapability; incompetency; unfitness; disqualification; disability. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. opacitas: cf. F. opacité. ] 1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being pacified or appeased; placable. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. The Pacific Ocean, the largest ocean.
Syn. -- Pacific Ocean. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. pacificus: cf. F. pacifique. See Pacify. ] Of or pertaining to peace; of a peaceful character; not warlike; not quarrelsome; as, a pacific nature or condition. [ wns=3 ]
Syn. -- peaceable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Promoting peace; suited to make or restore peace; conciliatory; as, pacific words or acts. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- irenic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. of or pertaining to the Pacific Ocean; as, Pacific islands. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Pacific Ocean, the ocean between America and Asia, so called by Magellan, its first European navigator, on account of the exemption from violent tempests which he enjoyed while sailing over it; -- called also, simply, the Pacific, and, formerly, the South sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Peacemaking; appeasing; conciliatory; tranquil; calm; quiet; peaceful; reconciling; mild; gentle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Placable. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to peace; pacific. [ R. ] Sir H. Wotton. -- Pa*cif"ic*al*ly, adv. [R.] [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. pacificatio: cf. F. pacification. See Pacify. ] The act or process of pacifying, or of making peace between parties at variance; reconciliation. “An embassy of pacification.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pacificatorius. ] Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A pacifist.
Syn. -- pacifist, disarmer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ Sp. See Pacific. ] A peaceful person; -- applied specif. by the Spaniards to the natives in Cuba and the Philippine Islands who did not oppose the Spanish arms.

While we were going through the woods one of the pacificos pointed to a new grave. Harper's Weekly. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. 1. One who or that which pacifies. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small device, usually of rubber or plastic containing a protruding nipple-shaped portion which a baby may place in its mouth and suck on; -- it is used to keep babies contented. [ PJC ]

n. the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable.
Syn. -- passivism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A person opposed to violence as a means of settling disputes.
Syn. -- pacificist, disarmer. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. A person whose strong belief in pacifism causes him/her to refuse to participate in military activities, especially one who refuses to be drafted into the armed forces. [ PJC ]

adj. Adhering to pacifism; opposed to war; -- of people. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Pacified p. pr. & vb. n. Pacifying ] [ F. pacifier, L. pacificare; pax, pacis, peace + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See Peace, and -fy. ] To make to be at peace; to appease; to calm; to still; to quiet; to allay the agitation, excitement, or resentment of; to tranquillize; as, to pacify a man when angry; to pacify pride, appetite, or importunity. “Pray ye, pacify yourself.” Shak.
Syn. -- lenify, assuage, appease, mollify, placate, gentle, gruntle. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

To pacify and settle those countries. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. freeing from fear and anxiety.
Syn. -- assuasive, calming, soothing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the speed at which a composition is to be played.
Syn. -- tempo. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Filippo Pacini (1812-1883), an Italian physician of the 19th century. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pacinian corpuscles, small oval bodies terminating some of the minute branches of the sensory nerves in the skin of the fingers, mesentery, integument and other parts of the body; the corpuscula lamellosa; called also Vater's corpuscles and Vater-Pacini corpuscles. They are sensitive to pressure, and supposed to be tactile organs. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. High-spirited; rampageous. [ Slang ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. rapax, -acis, from rapere to seize and carry off, to snatch away. See Rapid. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Given to plunder; disposed or accustomed to seize by violence; seizing by force. “ The downfall of the rapacious and licentious Knights Templar.” Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Accustomed to seize food; subsisting on prey, or animals seized by violence; as, a tiger is a rapacious animal; a rapacious bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Avaricious; grasping; extortionate; also, greedy; ravenous; voracious; as, rapacious usurers; a rapacious appetite. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Thy Lord ] redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claim Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Greedy; grasping; ravenous; voracious. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Ra*pa"cious*ly, adv. -- Ra*pa"cious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rapacitas: cf. F. rapacité. See Rapacious. ] 1. The quality of being rapacious; rapaciousness; ravenousness; as, the rapacity of pirates; the rapacity of wolves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act or practice of extorting or exacting by oppressive injustice; exorbitant greediness of gain. “The rapacity of some ages.” Sprat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To qualify again; to confer capacity on again. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To pacify again. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. scolopax a snipe, Gr. &unr_;. ] (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Scolopacidae, or Snipe family. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Spatial. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. See Spatially. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. spatiousus: cf. F. spacieux. See Space, n. ] 1. Extending far and wide; vast in extent. “A spacious plain outstretched in circuit wide.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall. -- Spa"cious*ly, adv. -- Spa"cious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]