recapacitatev.

1686 in H. Paton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1932) 3rd Ser. XIII. 20 For recapacitating him to goe about his affairs as a free subject.

1703 F. Atterbury Let. 13 Feb. in Misc. Wks. (1789) 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.

1787 S. Heywood Right Protestant Dissenters iii. 56 All persons who shall have omitted to qualify for offices, shall by qualifying on or before the 31st of December then next, be recapacitated and indemnified.

1822 G. C. tr. J.-B. Louvet de Couvray Amours Chevalier de Faublas IV. 140 All that may be, said she at length, but how can you arrange matters so as to re-capacitate M. de Lignolle?

1905 Jewish Q. Rev. 18 66 In the first year of George II an indemnity Act was passed, by which all persons who had neglected to qualify themselves for any office or employment by omitting to take the necessary oaths..are indemnified and recapacitated provided that [etc.].

2003 B. Brown Sense of Things 211 She recapacitates him to be ‘a man, and not a professor’..by conjuring up the adventurer within him.

1959 M. C. Chang in C. W. Lloyd Rec. Progress Endocrinol. & Reproduction 153 Decapacitated rabbit sperms can be recapacitated again.

1959 M. C. Chang in C. W. Lloyd Rec. Progress Endocrinol. & Reprod. 161 The capacitated sperms can be decapacitated by treatment with seminal plasma..but can be recapacitated if they remain longer in the female tract.

1969 New 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.

1996 Theriogenology 45 752 The decapacitated (ejaculated) spermatozoa must then be recapacitated before they become capable of fertilizing oocytes.