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Definition of Capacities
1. capacity [n] - See also: capacity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Capacities
Literary usage of Capacities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Language-study by Harold E. Palmer (1921)
"We shall see later by what means we may awaken our latent capacities and cause
them to become active, and, incidentally, how we can exercise ourselves to ..."
2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"The rights and duties capacities and incapacities, constituting a status, commonly
impart to the party invested with them a conspicuous character, ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1794)
"... a Duty upon all Servants retained or employed in the federal capacities therein
men-* ... or lhall be, retained in one or more of the faid capacities, ..."
4. Transactions by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1916)
"ENGINES IN UNITS OF SMALL capacities By JS Barstow,1 Philadelphia, Pa. Non-Member
The term "units of small capacities" as used herein is intended to include ..."
5. Educational Psychology by Edward Lee Thorndike (1913)
"SENSORY capacities To certain situations man responds originally by special
changes in the first sensory neurones and, through these, by special changes in ..."
6. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, William M. Lacy (1889)
"Of the powers and capacities of corporations. When a corporation is duly created,
many powers, rights, and capacities are annexed to it. ..."
7. The Works of Rufus Choate: With a Memoir of His Life by Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862)
"Does he doubt the agricultural capacities of the country ? I understand him to
go the whole length of his friends, the friends of this resolution, ..."
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