1635. Heywood, Hierarchy, II. 77. It is not fit … to enquire for that, which should we finde, Our limited and uncapacious minde Could not conceiue.
c. 1638. Feltham, Lett. to Johnson, in Resolves, etc. (1661), 87. The poor and uncapacious Vulgar think him to be such as they see.
1854. G. P. R. James, Ticonderoga, III. 81. The narrow-minded man, the man of an uncapacious soul.
a. 1859. De Quincey, Posth. Wks. (1891), I. 279. It is remarkable how mean, vulgar, and uncapacious has been the range of intellect in many first-rate Grecians.
