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recaˈpacitate, v.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. and refl. To make (legally) capable again. (Cf. capacitate v. 2.) rare.
1702–3Atterbury Let. Misc. Wks. 1739 I. 166 There was another [amendment], which provided, that persons, recapacitating themselves by taking the oaths, should not come into the places out of which they were turned, if full. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3892/1 An Act for Enlarging the Time for taking the Oath of Abjuration, and also for Recapacitating and Indempnifying such Persons as have not taken the same by the Time limited.
2. trans. Physiol. To restore potency to (a spermatozoon). Cf. capacitate v., capacitation.
1959M. C. Chang in C. W. Lloyd Rec. Progress Endocrinol. & Reproduction 153 Decapacitated rabbit sperms can be recapacitated again. Ibid. 161 The capacitated sperms can be decapacitated by treatment with seminal plasma..but can be recapacitated if they remain longer in the female tract. 1969New Scientist 31 July 234/1 Such sperm were said to have suffered decapacitation, and could regain fertilizing ability (be ‘recapacitated’) by spending a second period in the female tract.
Hence ˌrecapaciˈtation.
1970[see decapacitated ppl. a.]. 1974Jrnl. Reproduction & Fertility XLI. 243 It was possible to demonstrate sperm recapacitation. |