capable

adj

1. Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.

   “She is capable and efficient.”

   “He does not need help; he is capable of eating on his own.”

   “As everyone knew, he was capable of violence when roused.”

   “That fact is not capable of proof.”

   “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.”

2. (obsolete)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.”

   “[...] deſignation only to thoſe things, which have parts, and are capable of increaſe or diminution [...]”

   “Again, I farther obſerve, that as man is a compound being, ſo this renders him capable of ſeveral diſtinct kinds of pleaſure [...]”

   “He has begun a road capable of a wheel-carriage.”