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.
1555. Cdl. Pole, in Strype, Cranmer (1694), App. x. 216. The doctrine of the presence prevayling … above mans reason … may be capace of the same.
1658. Lennard, trans. Charron’s Wisd., III. xiv. § 36 (1670), 459. When they are great and capace of that whereunto they were instructed.
