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long a duration as they are capable of. ^Qualifi¬ 
ed for; without legal impediment. It has the particle of 
before a noun: 
What fecret fprings their eager paffions move, 
flow capable of death for injur’d love ! Dryden. 
Hollow. Not now in vfe : 
Lean but upon a rufh, 
. The cicatrice, and capable impreffure, 
Thy palm fome moments keeps. Shakefpeare. 
CA'PABLENESS,/. The quality or (late of being ca¬ 
pable ; knowledge ; underftanding ; power of mind. 
CAPAC'CIO, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Principato Citra, the fee ofabilhop, 
Suffragan of Salerno : five miles north of Agropoli. 
CAPACI'NI, a town of Italy, in the kingdom of Na¬ 
ples, and province of Capitanata : four miles weft of Viefta. 
CAPA'CIOUS, adj. [ capax , Lat.] Wide; large; able 
to hold much: 
Beneath th’ mediant weeping of thofe drains 
I fee the rocky fiphons ftretch’d immenfe, 
The mighty refervoirs of harden’d chalk 
Or ftilf compacted clay, capacious found. Thomfon . 
Extenfive ; equal to much knowledge, or great defign.— 
There are fome perfons of a good genius, and a capacious 
mind, who write and fpeak very obfeurely. Watts. 
C APA'CIOUSNESS,yi The power of holding or re¬ 
ceiving ; largenefs.—A concave meafure, of known and 1 
denominate capacity, ferves to meafure the capacioufnefs of 
any other veffel. Holder. 
To CAPA'CITATE, v. a. To make capable ; to ena. 
ble ; to qualify.-—Thefe fort of men were fycophants on¬ 
ly, and were endued with arts of life, to capacitate them for 
the converfation of the rich and great. Tatler. 
CAPA'CITY,yi [ capacite , Fr.] The power of holding 
or containing any thing.—Space, confidered in length, 
breadth, and thicknefs, I think, may be called capacity. 
Locke, —Room ; fpace.—There remained, in the capacity 
of the exhaufted cylinder, ftore of little rooms, or fpaces, 
empty or devoid of air. Boyle .—The force or power of the 
mind.—No intelleftual creature is able, by capacity, to do 
that whicli nature doth without capacity and knowledge. 
Hooker. —Power; ability: 
Since the world’s wide frame does not include 
A caufe with fuch capacities endu’d, 
Some other caufe o’er nature muft prefide. Btackmore. 
State ; condition ; character.—You defire my thoughts as 
a friend, and not as a member of parliament; they are the 
lame in both capacities. Swift. 
CAPA'CITY,/! in law, an ability, or fitnefs to re¬ 
ceive ; as where a man, or body politic, is able to give 
or take lands, or other things, or fue aftions. Our law 
allows the king two capacities, a natural and a politic : in 
the firft, he may purchafe lands to him and his heirs ; in 
the latter, to him and his fucceffors. An alien born hath 
fufficient capacity to fue in any perfonal aft ion, and is ca¬ 
pable of perfonal eftate ; but lie is not capable of lands of 
inheritance. See Alien. Perfons attainted of treafon or 
felony, ideots, lunatics, infants, feme coverts without their 
hufbands, See. are not capable to make any deed of gift, 
grant, or conveyance, unlefs it be in fome fpecial cafes. 
Co. Lit. 17 r, 173, 
CAPA'LITA, a large town of North America, in the 
province of Guaxaca. The country round abounds with 
Sheep, cattle, and excellent fruit. 
C APAN A B AST'LA, a town of North America, in the 
province of Chiapa, in Mexico ; jeventy miles foutb-eaft 
of Chiapa des Efpagnoles, 
CAPA'NEUS, a noble Argive, of great ft at tire, fon of 
Hipponous and Aftinome, and hufband to Evadrte, He 
was the inventor of fcaling-ladders, and was fo impious as 
to fay, that when he went to the Theban war, be would 
fake Thebes in fpite of Jupiter. Sufh contempt provok- 
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ed the god, who ftruck him dead with a thunderbolt. His 
body was burnt feparately from the others, and his wife 
threw herfelf on the burning pile to mingle her afhes with 
his. It is faid that ./E'culapius reftored him to life. Ovid. 
CAPA’RISON,/. [ caparazon , Span, a great cloak.] A 
horfe-cloth, or covering for a horfe; the decorations, 
trappings, and furniture, put on horfes for ftate and (how; 
Tilting furniture, emblazon’d (hields, 
Impreffes quaint, caparifons , and fteeds, 
Bafes, and tinfel trappings, gorgeous knights, 
At jouft and tournament. Milton-. 
To CAPA'RISON, v.a. To drefs in caparifons: 
The fteeds caparifon'd with purple (land, 
With golden trappings, glorious to behold, 
And champ betwixt their teeth the foaming gold. Dryden, 
To drefs pompoufly : in a ludicrousfenfe. —Don’t you think, 
though I am caparifoncd like a man, I have a doublet and 
hofe in my difpofition > Shakefpeare. 
CAPE ,f. [ cape , Fr.] An headland or promontory; 
The parting fun, 
Beyond the earth’s green cape and verdant ides, 
Hefperean fets ; my fignal to depart. Milton. 
The neck-piece of a cloak, or coat.—He was clothed in 3 
robe of fine black cloth, with wide fleeves and cape. Bacon. 
CA'PE ,f in law, a writ judicial, touching pleaof lands 
or tenements ; fo termed, as moll writs are, of that word 
in it, which carries the chief intention or end thereof; and 
this writ is divided into cape magnum and capeparvum, both 
of which concern things immoveable. Cape Magnum, 
or the grand cape , is a writ that lies before appearance, 
to fummon the tenant to anfwer the default, and alfo over 
to the demandant : and in the Old Nat. Brev. it is defined 
to be, where a man hath brought a preccipe quod reddat of 
a thing touching plea of land, and the tenant makes de¬ 
fault at the day to him given in the original writ, then this 
writ (hall go for the king to take the land into his hands ; 
and, if the tenant come not at the day given him thereby, 
he lofeth his land, See. See Reg. Jud. 1. BraEl. 3. Cape 
Parvum, ox petit cape, is where the tenant is fummoned 
in plea of land, and comes on the fummons, and his ap¬ 
pearance is recorded ; if at the day given him lie prays 
the view, and having it granted makes default ; then this 
writ (hall ilfue for the king, See. The difference between 
the grand cape and petit cape is, that the grand cape is a- 
warded upon the tenant’s not appearing or demanding the 
view in fuch real aftions, where the original writ does not 
mention the ‘particulars demanded; and th e petit cape is 
after appearance or view granted : and, whereas ill e grand 
cape fummons the tenant to anfwer for the default, and. 
likewife over to the demandant; petit cape fummons the 
tenant to anfwer the default only. 
Cape ad Valenti am, is a fpeeies of cape magnum*, 
and is where I am impleaded of lands, and vouch to war, 
rant another, againft whom the fummons ad warr antizandwn 
hath been awarded, and he comes not at the day given ; 
then, if the demandant recover againft me, 1 fhali have 
this writ againft the vouchee, and recover fo much in va¬ 
lue of the lands, of the vouchee, if he hath fo much ; if 
not, 1 dial! have execution of fuch lands and tenements as 
(hall after defeend to him in fee ; or, if lie purchases af¬ 
terwards, I (hall have againft him a re-fummoris, Sec, And 
this writ lies before appearance. See Finf and Recovery. 
CAPE ABACQUS a cape near the weft end of the- 
fonth coaft of the ifland of St. Domingo. I,at. tS. 4. N* 
Ion. 74.W. Greenwich. 
CAPE A'CUA, a cape of Spain, on the coaft of Mur* 
cia, in the Mediterranean. Lat, 37. 33..N. ton. 15.32. 
K. Peak of'feneriffe. 
CAPE A'GUER, or Gsr, a cape of Africa, in the At¬ 
lantic, on the coaft of Morocco. Lat. 30.50. N. Ion, .to,, 
15. W. Greenwich. 
CAPE AGU'jA, a double point of South America, etv 
the coaft .of Pc'ru. Lat. 6 .38. S, Ion. So. 55.'W. Green**. 
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