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comparative more capable, superlative most capable
Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something. examples
(obsolete) Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in; accessible to. Construed with of, for or an infinitive. quotations
The place chosen was the cathedral church, capable of about 400 persons.
1672, Lord Herbert, The Life and Reign of King Henry the Eighth, page 594
He has begun a road capable of a wheel-carriage.
1775, Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (Works 10.479), page 304