Adjective : a capacious storage bin. From Dictionary.com.
The nobleman smiled capaciously, his jowls glimmering like the wet pouches of a satisfied frog. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadian Masques]
Mr. Sennett regards skilled work capaciously, though; it is one form of what economists broadly call human capital. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Doing Something Well] Reference
She yawned capaciously, revealing a complete set of red-stained teeth, her upper lip catching in a delicate sneer above a crooked canine. From Wordnik.com. [Song of Time]
And of course I am not arguing against the theological roots of Unitarian Universalism, but I think toward a more capaciously theological sense of these roots. From Wordnik.com. [Philocrites: Uh oh, it's salvation by hermeneutics.] Reference
"Reading this book is to be immersed in India, you feel you are living that life, such is the power of this acute, stubbornly honest, capaciously minded writer to recreate his times.". From Wordnik.com. [A shameless attempt at jumping aboard the Nobel bandwagon] Reference
One advantage to defining “reasoning” capaciously, as here, is that it helps one recognize that the processes whereby we come to be concretely aware of moral issues are integral to moral reasoning more narrowly understood. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Reasoning] Reference
He is the Molly Ivins of the historical profession, a razor-witted, capaciously well-read scholar and critic of scholars, who is often seen at professional gatherings holding court in the hotel bar or leading a large group out to a fabulous restaurant. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
I yawned, Tony yawned noisily, Mrs Widger capaciously. From Wordnik.com. [A Poor Man's House] Reference
The forehead was undeniably fine, prominently and capaciously developed. From Wordnik.com. [Bressant] Reference
Apparently, he found the conversation trivial; he yawned again, capaciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain of the Kansas] Reference
Perhaps Dimock answered the question: "How does teaching literature, capaciously defined, benefit society?". From Wordnik.com. [The Long Eighteenth] Reference
The Saxon capital sits capaciously like a comfortable old dowager fully dressed in stuffs of a richly dull color. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference
The capaciously strong in soul among women will ultimately detect an infinite grossness in the demand for purity infinite, spotless bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
The children flooded about Aunt Bella like a rising tide and were capaciously hugged and kissed ere they departed with their nurses to the swimming beach. From Wordnik.com. [On the Makaloa Mat] Reference
She paused and looked doubtfully at the unpretentious little one-story building that stretched away capaciously and unostentatiously from the grassy roadside. From Wordnik.com. [The Search] Reference
The foremost of them wore a low-crowned cap, simply decorated with a heron's plume, and a doublet of mulberry-coloured velvet, puffed out capaciously at the shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
Marriage is to the Germans such an earth-to-earth affair, as Gard perceived, that he marveled she did not unbosom herself capaciously about what must be a mother's anxiety. From Wordnik.com. [Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life] Reference
Sir Francis had yawned capaciously once or twice, and had played absently with a large ink-stained paperknife, -- signs that his mind was wandering somewhat from the point at issue. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference
I say orchard: The trees were dense in one place, scattered in another, as though planted by random throw, but all were heavy trunked and capaciously limbed, and they were fruit trees every one of them. From Wordnik.com. [Truth v. The Machine] Reference
This is conspicuous from the first in the otherwise noble pages of the elder PLINY, and is the secret of that want of critical insight which, in a mind so capaciously stored, strikes us at first as inexplicable. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius] Reference
Since the New Deal, and particularly during the civil rights era, the Commerce Clause has been interpreted capaciously to permit the government to do good actual good in the civil rights cases, perceived good in the New Deal cases. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
In last week's prime-time address to the nation, the president sat behind a massive and capaciously empty desk, looking somehow smaller than he ever has -- a man physically reduced by sinking polls, a lousy economy and the prospect that his party might lose control of. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! Buzz US: Top Stories] Reference
Outside of Seattle, Taylor is probably best known as a charter member of the capaciously inventive combo Matt Jorgensen + 451, where his centered saxophone provides a sense of unflappable serenity amid Jorgensen's effusive drum work and Ryan Burns 'clanging keyboards. From Wordnik.com. [The Seattle Times] Reference
In last week's prime-time address to the nation, the president sat behind a massive and capaciously empty desk, looking somehow smaller than he ever has -- a man physically reduced by sinking polls, a lousy economy and the prospect that his party might lose control of Congress. From Wordnik.com. [RealClearPolitics - Homepage] Reference
There will be room for all his friends on this boat, he says, naming several dozen of them (the list varied slightly in different publications, but the Ungers were the only “family” ever included) before adding capaciously (and coyly), “All my friends!. From Wordnik.com. [Raymond Carver] Reference
Falon grinned capaciously. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragons at War]
And yet any sensible man, let him be as supercilious as he may, must on consideration allow that amongst the crowd of unlearned or half-learned readers, who have had neither time nor opportunities for what is called 'erudition' or learned studies, there must always lurk a proportion of men that, by constitution of mind, and by the bounty of nature, are much better fitted for thinking, originally more philosophic, and are more capaciously endowed, than those who are, by accident of position, more learned. From Wordnik.com. [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1] Reference
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