单词 | difficultate |
释义 | difficultatev. rare after 17th cent. transitive. = difficult v. (in various senses). Cf. difficilitate 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. 1655 Exhort. directed to Elders 12 To repair for mutual advisement and help, to the classical meeting, and to the Provincial, if they find themselvs still difficultated. 1697 W. Jameson Nazianzeni Querela i. i. 2 D. Forbes..propones at length the Question, If Episcopacy be of Divine Right? And yet declares himself highly difficultated what to Answer. 1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 161 The circumstances which facilitated or difficultated (if I may make such a word for the nonce) the introduction of Christianity. 2000 J. McCourt Delancey's Way ii. 45 You ain't gonna difficultate my life wit' no woik ethics derived from people whose white Puritan ancestors inhabitated cold climates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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