Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
They are neither capable of forming to themſelves a Rule, nor of diſcovering a Law-giver, nor of having the Rule enforc’d on them by the Proſpect of future Good or Ill.
Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in; accessible to. Construed with of, for or an infinitive.
The place chosen was the cathedral church, capable of about 400 persons.
Borrowed from Middle French capable, from Late Latin capābilis.
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