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🛠️ To enable 🧬 To prepare sperm 📜 To give legal power
to capacitate

to capacitate

9.9
To give someone the legal right or authority to act
  • verb
  • /kəˈpæsɪˌteɪt/
  • Formal
translation icon : habilitar
  • The new statute seeks to capacitate individuals with disabilities to manage their own legal affairs.

Examples

  • The law intends to capacitate nonprofit organizations to enter into such contracts.

  • The new law will capacitate local governments to make their own decisions.

  • After years of training, she was finally capacitated to serve as a legal guardian.

  • They capacitated her to act on behalf of the organization.

  • The new law intends to capacitate individuals to act as their own legal representatives.

  • Training programs are designed to capacitate social workers to assist vulnerable communities.

  • The organization aimed to capacitate its members to advocate for their rights effectively.

Synonyms

to authorize
vsto capacitate
489 4.4

To give official permission for someone to do something

grants legal capacity and formal authority rather than mere permission
to legalize
vsto capacitate
  • US
135 3.7

Make something allowed by law

grants an individual legal authority to act rather than changing law
to legitimize
vsto capacitate
  • US
40 5.8

To make something legal or officially accepted

gives legal power to act rather than only official acceptability
to legitimise
vsto capacitate
  • UK
5.0

Make something legal by official approval

confers legal authority to act rather than granting just acceptability

Antonyms

to prohibit
299 3.3

To officially say that something is not allowed by law

to disqualify
116 3.7

Make someone not allowed to take part because they broke the rules

How Authorized

to empower
157 4.2
to capacitate
  • Formal
9.9
to authorize
489 4.4
to permit
531 1.5
to allow
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

capacitate infinitive
capacitated past
capacitated past participle
capacitating present participle
capacitates third person singular

Morphology

capacitate = capacity (transparent) = capacity + ate

The legal sense ('to grant legal power or make qualified') is a straightforward extension of 'make able' and thus derivable from 'capacity'.

Etymology

Capacitate comes from the same root as capacity and capable, which means 'able' or having power. So to legally capacitate someone is to give them the formal power or ability to act.