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† caˈpace Obs. [ad. L. capāx, capāci-, f. capĕre to take. (See -acious.) Ital. has capace, and there may have been a 16th c. F. capace, as the direct source.] Able to take in (with the mind) or comprehend; ‘capacious’ of.
1555Cdl. Pole in Strype Cranmer (1694) App. x. 216 The doctrine of the presence prevayling..above mans reason..may be capace of the same. 1658S. Lennard tr. Charron's Wisd. iii. xiv. §36 (1670) 459 When they are great and capace of that whereunto they were instructed. |