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adjective

Capable adj.

Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault. "Concious of joy and capable of pain."

Possessing adequate power; qualified; able; fully competent; as, a capable instructor; a capable judge; a mind capable of nice investigations. "More capable to discourse of battles than to give them."

Possessing legal power or capacity; as, a man capable of making a contract, or a will.

Capacious; large; comprehensive. (Obs.) Note: Capable is usually followed by of, sometimes by an infinitive.

Synonyms: Able; competent; qualified; fitted; efficient; effective; skillful.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Capable" Quotes from Famous Books

... of Europe, including the advent of the euro in January 1999. Today, France is at the forefront of European states seeking to exploit the momentum of monetary union to advance the creation of a more unified and capable ...

— The 2000 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

... He'd simply roar with laughter at the mere thought of such a thing! Why, Christopher isn't capable of falling in love with anybody; he hasn't got it in him, ...

— The Farringdons • Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler

... that man, without the Spirit of Christ inwardly revealed, can do nothing to the glory of God, or to effect his own salvation, we think this influence especially necessary to the performance of the highest act of which the human mind is capable,—even the worship of the Father of lights and of spirits, in spirit and in truth; therefore we consider as obstruction to pure worship, all forms which divert the attention of the mind from the secret influence of this unction from the Holy One. Yet, although true worship is not confined to time ...

— The Book of Religions • John Hayward

... master spoke had some effect even on the hardened Varney, who, in the midst of his own wicked and ambitious designs, really loved his patron as well as such a wretch was capable of loving anything. But he comforted himself, and subdued his self-reproaches, with the reflection that if he inflicted upon the Earl some immediate and transitory pain, it was in order to pave his way to the throne, ...

— Kenilworth • Sir Walter Scott

... and that God himself in calling us to him should not distinguish or divide what the miracle of love had transformed and mingled!... Oh, if you have a brother or a son, who has never understood virtue, pray that he may love as I did! As long as he loves thus, he will be capable of every sacrifice or heroic devotion to equal the ideal of his love; and when he no longer loves, he will still retain in his soul a remembrance of celestial delights, which will make him turn with disgust from the waters of vice, and his eye will be often secretly ...

— Raphael - Pages Of The Book Of Life At Twenty • Alphonse de Lamartine

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