单词 | difficilitate |
释义 | difficilitatev. Now rare. transitive. To make difficult; to hinder, impede. Cf. facilitate v. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > of difficulty: beset (a person) [verb (transitive)] > make difficult encumber1555 difficult1608 difficilitate1611 difficultate1611 infacilitate1652 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Difficulter, to difficultate, or difficilitate; to make difficult. 1641 F. Quarles Enchyridion (new ed.) i. lxxviii. sig. E8 The boldnesse of their resolution will disadvantage the Assaylants, and difficilitate their designe. 1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia xv. §4 282 (heading) The inordinateness of our love difficilitateth this Duty. 1805 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1962) II. 2490 The causes that would difficilitate Divorce even if the Laws permitted it. 1898 W. J. McGee Seri Indians 137 The estimation of Seri stature is difficilitated by the impossibility of defining maturity. 1903 Archit. Rec. July 338 It is plain how this complicates and difficilitates the construction. 1953 W. W. Crosskey Politics & Constit. in Hist. U.S. II. xxiv. 756 To delay and difficilitate the systematic exposition of the new judiciary powers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1611 |
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