"I cannot but go." Say, I can but go.
"Men are capable of being flattered." Say, susceptible to flattery. "Capable of being refuted." Vulnerable to refutation. Unlike capacity, capability is not passive, but active. We are capable of doing, not of having something done to us.
"A great capacity for work." Capacity is receptive; ability, potential. A sponge has capacity for water; the hand, ability to squeeze it out.
A needless euphemism affected by undertakers.
The essence of casualty is accident, absence of design. Death and wounds in battle are produced otherwise, are expectable and expected, and, by the enemy, intentional.
"He had a good chance to succeed."
The whisker grows on the cheek, not the chin.
The word is popularly used in the Southern States only, and commonly has reference to men's manner toward women. Archaic, stilted and fantastic.
A soldier may be a citizen, but is not a civilian.
"I claim that he is elected." To claim is to assert ownership.
In this sense the word was once in general use in the United States, but is now seldom heard and life here is less insupportable.