militatev.

Brit.

/ˈmɪlᵻteɪt/, U.S.

/ˈmɪləˌteɪt/

Forms: 1500s– militate; Scottish pre-1700 militat, pre-1700 1800s– militate.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mīlitāt-, mīlitāre.

Etymology: < classical Latin mīlitāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of mīlitāre to serve as a soldier, wage war, also to strive, contend (in post-classical Latin also to dispute (a1217 in a British source), to contradict, be inconsistent with (from a1349 in British sources)) < mīlit- , mīles soldier (see military adj.). Compare Middle French, French militer to wage war (c1480), to constitute a factor against or in favour of (1669), to fight for a political cause, to campaign (1794). Compare earlier militation n.

a. intransitive. Of a person, institution, etc.: to contend in the manner of a soldier; to exert power or influence; to campaign; to strive.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)]

winc888

fightc900

flitec900

wraxlec1000

wrestlea1200

cockc1225

conteckc1290

strivec1290

struta1300

topc1305

to have, hold, make, take strifec1374

stightlea1375

debatec1386

batea1400

strugglec1412

hurlc1440

ruffle1440

warc1460

warslea1500

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sturtc1535

tuga1550

broilc1567

threap1572

yoke1581

bustle1585

bandy1594

tilt1595

combat1597

to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597

mutiny1597

militate1598

combatizec1600

scuffle1601

to run (or ride) a-tilt1608

wage1608

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stickle1625

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dispute1656

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contrast1672

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to battle it1715

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tussle1862

pickeer1892

passage1895

tangle1928

1598 T. Rogers Celestiall Elegies sig. A4 Her vertues that did militate on earth, Against the flesh, the deuill, sinne and hell.

1635 in R. A. Hay Geneal. Sainteclaires (1835) 90 Your lordship hes to militat by your preposterous pitie with a moir noble.

1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. App. 199 Lest..whiles they seeke to deserve well of the Common-wealth, they militate to the private lust of any.

1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. iii. 22 God doth not militate against himself.

1735 G. Berkeley Reasons §17 This learned professor, who at bottom militates on my side.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxvii. 64 The invisible powers of heaven..seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor.

1799 E. Dubois Piece Family Biogr. III. 157 To incur the severe displeasure of his father and sir David, by disobeying the one, and militating against the peace of the other, was what he could not bear.

1851 W. S. Landor Popery 36 They who litigate and militate in the church about him.

1992 New Republic 10 Aug. 24/3 The non-market institutions that militate in favor of greater income equality—trade unions, the public sector, regulatory constraints on financial speculation—took it on the chin.

†b. intransitive. To serve as a soldier; to take part in warfare. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military service > serve as a soldier [verb (intransitive)]

to bear armsc1325

to take armsa1425

serve1430

war1535

to trail a pikec1550

sold1564

to follow the drum1575

to see and serve1590

soldierize1593

militate1625

soldier1647

be in buff1701

to go (a-)soldiering1756

1625 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Free Schoole of Warre 41 This..moues many Italian Caualiers to militate in the warres of Holland.

1662 Earl of Orrery Coll. State Lett. (1743) II. 437 The faithful Christians..militating against the hereticks.

1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 12 The supply of her armies militating in so many distant countries.

1834 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 181/2 Originally it had militated for glory and power; now its militancy was for mere existence.

1839 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici IX. x. 305 Men who militate merely for pay.

c. intransitive. To advocate or employ militant action in pursuit of a political or social end. Sometimes also: to display industrial or political intransigence.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > be militant [verb (intransitive)]

militate1932

society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > display intransigence

militate1932

1932 V. Woolf Let. ?28 Dec. (1979) V. 141 You will tell me all about Mrs Pankhurst and the suffrage. Why did you militate?

1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xvi. 321 Busse knew all too well what happened to French Communists who showed disloyalty, or even who failed to ‘militate’.

1969 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 30 Jan. 4/3 Simone Weil going to work in a factory and eventually starving herself to death in order to share the diet of the people of occupied France was answering the same ‘call’ as..Silone militating in the underground, in clandestinity.

1987 R. Shilts And Band played On (1988) vi. xxiv. 236 Bill Kraus wanted to start making noise, hold angry press briefings, and begin militating for more funds.

a. intransitive. Of a fact or circumstance, evidence, etc.: to be a powerful or conclusive factor against (also in favour of, rarely for) some conclusion or result. Sometimes also (without preposition): to be effective, to contribute.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > bear witness, testify [verb (intransitive)]

to bear (one) witnesslOE

witne?c1225

to bear witnessinga1300

to bear recordc1330

testimonyc1330

testify1377

witnessc1380

recordc1400

militatec1600

suffragate1620

testate1624

depone1640

attest1672

rap1728

certify1874

certificate1907

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > of evidence: tell for or against

fight1587

militatec1600

make1726

c1600 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 326 These decreittis militatis nathing in this caice.

1658 R. Baxter Of Saving Faith 22 Your reasons..do learnedly militate for the Assertion that I maintain.

1801 H. L. Piozzi Diary 1 May in K. C. Balderston Thraliana (1942) II. 1022 There is a passage in Plutarch..that militates in favour of M^r Whalley's Opinion.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxxiv. 195 Everything may militate for, and nothing militate against, its authenticity.

1874 A. J. Christie in H. E. Manning Ess. Relig. & Lit. 3rd Ser. 65 The same reasons which militated in favour of the necessity of the Church's living authority in the first four centuries, militate for it now.

1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down vi. 66 Yes..it's crude. I don't think that militates against its success in any way.

1974 B. Cunliffe Iron Age Communities Brit. 175 The slight nature of their earthworks tends to militate against their easy recognition.

1988 F. Spalding Brit. Art since 1900 i. 13 His emphasis on tone militated against acceptance of French Impressionism.

†b. intransitive. Of a thing: to conflict, be inconsistent with. Also, of speech, an action: to be directed against; to contradict. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)]

withgo743

to go again ——OE

withsayc1175

again-goc1275

withsitc1300

thwarta1325

to go against ——a1382

counter1382

repugnc1384

adversea1393

craba1400

gainsaya1400

movec1400

overthwart?a1425

to put (also set) one's face againsta1425

traversea1425

contrairc1425

to take again ——c1425

contraryc1430

to take against ——a1450

opposec1485

again-seta1500

gain?a1500

oppone1500

transverse1532

to come up against1535

heave at1546

to be against1549

encounter1549

to set shoulder against1551

to fly in the face of1553

crossc1555

to cross with1590

countermand1592

forstand1599

opposit1600

thorter1608

obviate1609

disputea1616

obstrigillate1623

contradict1632

avert1635

to set one's hand against1635

top1641

militate1642

to come across ——1653

contrariate1656

to cross upon (or on)1661

shock1667

clash1685

rencounter1689

obtend1697

counteract1708

oppugnate1749

retroact?1761

controvert1782

react1795

to set against ——1859

appose-

the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > specifically of things

warc1230

repugnc1450

oppugn1584

militate1642

to give against ——1646

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > contrary evidence > contradict, go against [verb (transitive)]

traverse1491

to make against ——a1540

contradict1593

to give the lie (to)1593

dementie1594

belie1624

militate1642

contravenea1670

disconfirm1827

contra-indicate1880

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > be unharmonious or incongruous with [verb (transitive)] > be inconsistent with

competition1650

militate1756

1642 P. Heylyn Hist. Episcopacie ii. i. 4 The discourse of Clemens..doth militate aswell against the one, as against the other.

1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 439 It militates with the reveled truths of God.

1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 45 Something..which militates with any rational plan.

1796 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. III. 355 It militated directly against the principle..laid down.

a1852 D. Webster Wks. (1877) III. 210 Dispatches are read, which, it is said militate with one another.

3. transitive. To dispute, debate (a question); to contravene, to conflict with; to inhibit or prevent. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > argue about, dispute [verb (transitive)]

traverse?1504

arguea1513

to stand in terms?a1562

to stand with ——1579

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bandy1589

balk1590

ventilate1607

controvert1609

sticklea1661

chop1685

militate1754

1754 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 78. 162 The present question must be militated before any other question can be received.

1762 S. Foote Orators i. 15 When affairs of state are weigh'd at a common-council, religious points militated at the Robin-hood,..or politicks debated near Westminster-abby [etc.].

1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 27 July 2/1 He militates not only common sense, but even common decency, contra bonos mores.

1857 J. Hyde Mormonism iv. 96 To hold no trust as sacred, no duty obligatory, no promise or oath binding that militates or infringes the interests of the Church.

1990 Marxism Today June 26/2 According to some journalists..there is less ‘caballing’ in today's newspaper office, and working conditions militate a sense of common interest, common identity and shared concerns among staff. Atomisation is the keyword here.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	militate
释义	militatev. Brit. /ˈmɪlᵻteɪt/, U.S. /ˈmɪləˌteɪt/ Forms: 1500s– militate; Scottish pre-1700 militat, pre-1700 1800s– militate. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin mīlitāt-, mīlitāre. Etymology: < classical Latin mīlitāt-, past participial stem (compare -ate suffix³) of mīlitāre to serve as a soldier, wage war, also to strive, contend (in post-classical Latin also to dispute (a1217 in a British source), to contradict, be inconsistent with (from a1349 in British sources)) < mīlit- , mīles soldier (see military adj.). Compare Middle French, French militer to wage war (c1480), to constitute a factor against or in favour of (1669), to fight for a political cause, to campaign (1794). Compare earlier militation n. 1. a. intransitive. Of a person, institution, etc.: to contend in the manner of a soldier; to exert power or influence; to campaign; to strive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > contention or strife > contend [verb (intransitive)] winc888 fightc900 flitec900 wraxlec1000 wrestlea1200 cockc1225 conteckc1290 strivec1290 struta1300 topc1305 to have, hold, make, take strifec1374 stightlea1375 debatec1386 batea1400 strugglec1412 hurlc1440 ruffle1440 warc1460 warslea1500 pingle?a1513 contend1529 repugn1529 scruggle1530 sturtc1535 tuga1550 broilc1567 threap1572 yoke1581 bustle1585 bandy1594 tilt1595 combat1597 to go (also shake, try, wrestle) a fall1597 mutiny1597 militate1598 combatizec1600 scuffle1601 to run (or ride) a-tilt1608 wage1608 contesta1618 stickle1625 conflict1628 stickle1647 dispute1656 fence1665 contrast1672 scramble1696 to battle it1715 rug1832 grabble1835 buffet1839 tussle1862 pickeer1892 passage1895 tangle1928 1598 T. Rogers Celestiall Elegies sig. A4 Her vertues that did militate on earth, Against the flesh, the deuill, sinne and hell. 1635 in R. A. Hay Geneal. Sainteclaires (1835) 90 Your lordship hes to militat by your preposterous pitie with a moir noble. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. App. 199 Lest..whiles they seeke to deserve well of the Common-wealth, they militate to the private lust of any. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. i. iii. 22 God doth not militate against himself. 1735 G. Berkeley Reasons §17 This learned professor, who at bottom militates on my side. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxvii. 64 The invisible powers of heaven..seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor. 1799 E. Dubois Piece Family Biogr. III. 157 To incur the severe displeasure of his father and sir David, by disobeying the one, and militating against the peace of the other, was what he could not bear. 1851 W. S. Landor Popery 36 They who litigate and militate in the church about him. 1992 New Republic 10 Aug. 24/3 The non-market institutions that militate in favor of greater income equality—trade unions, the public sector, regulatory constraints on financial speculation—took it on the chin. †b. intransitive. To serve as a soldier; to take part in warfare. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military service > serve as a soldier [verb (intransitive)] to bear armsc1325 to take armsa1425 serve1430 war1535 to trail a pikec1550 sold1564 to follow the drum1575 to see and serve1590 soldierize1593 militate1625 soldier1647 be in buff1701 to go (a-)soldiering1756 1625 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Free Schoole of Warre 41 This..moues many Italian Caualiers to militate in the warres of Holland. 1662 Earl of Orrery Coll. State Lett. (1743) II. 437 The faithful Christians..militating against the hereticks. 1769 E. Burke Observ. Late State Nation 12 The supply of her armies militating in so many distant countries. 1834 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 181/2 Originally it had militated for glory and power; now its militancy was for mere existence. 1839 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici IX. x. 305 Men who militate merely for pay. c. intransitive. To advocate or employ militant action in pursuit of a political or social end. Sometimes also: to display industrial or political intransigence. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > militancy > be militant [verb (intransitive)] militate1932 society > occupation and work > working > labour relations > participate in labour relations [verb (intransitive)] > display intransigence militate1932 1932 V. Woolf Let. ?28 Dec. (1979) V. 141 You will tell me all about Mrs Pankhurst and the suffrage. Why did you militate? 1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xvi. 321 Busse knew all too well what happened to French Communists who showed disloyalty, or even who failed to ‘militate’. 1969 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 30 Jan. 4/3 Simone Weil going to work in a factory and eventually starving herself to death in order to share the diet of the people of occupied France was answering the same ‘call’ as..Silone militating in the underground, in clandestinity. 1987 R. Shilts And Band played On (1988) vi. xxiv. 236 Bill Kraus wanted to start making noise, hold angry press briefings, and begin militating for more funds. 2. a. intransitive. Of a fact or circumstance, evidence, etc.: to be a powerful or conclusive factor against (also in favour of, rarely for) some conclusion or result. Sometimes also (without preposition): to be effective, to contribute. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > bear witness, testify [verb (intransitive)] to bear (one) witnesslOE witne?c1225 to bear witnessinga1300 to bear recordc1330 testimonyc1330 testify1377 witnessc1380 recordc1400 militatec1600 suffragate1620 testate1624 depone1640 attest1672 rap1728 certify1874 certificate1907 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > attest, bear witness [verb (transitive)] > of evidence: tell for or against fight1587 militatec1600 make1726 c1600 in G. Stevenson Poems A. Montgomerie (1910) 326 These decreittis militatis nathing in this caice. 1658 R. Baxter Of Saving Faith 22 Your reasons..do learnedly militate for the Assertion that I maintain. 1801 H. L. Piozzi Diary 1 May in K. C. Balderston Thraliana (1942) II. 1022 There is a passage in Plutarch..that militates in favour of M^r Whalley's Opinion. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxxiv. 195 Everything may militate for, and nothing militate against, its authenticity. 1874 A. J. Christie in H. E. Manning Ess. Relig. & Lit. 3rd Ser. 65 The same reasons which militated in favour of the necessity of the Church's living authority in the first four centuries, militate for it now. 1952 P. Bowles Let it come Down vi. 66 Yes..it's crude. I don't think that militates against its success in any way. 1974 B. Cunliffe Iron Age Communities Brit. 175 The slight nature of their earthworks tends to militate against their easy recognition. 1988 F. Spalding Brit. Art since 1900 i. 13 His emphasis on tone militated against acceptance of French Impressionism. †b. intransitive. Of a thing: to conflict, be inconsistent with. Also, of speech, an action: to be directed against; to contradict. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] withgo743 to go again ——OE withsayc1175 again-goc1275 withsitc1300 thwarta1325 to go against ——a1382 counter1382 repugnc1384 adversea1393 craba1400 gainsaya1400 movec1400 overthwart?a1425 to put (also set) one's face againsta1425 traversea1425 contrairc1425 to take again ——c1425 contraryc1430 to take against ——a1450 opposec1485 again-seta1500 gain?a1500 oppone1500 transverse1532 to come up against1535 heave at1546 to be against1549 encounter1549 to set shoulder against1551 to fly in the face of1553 crossc1555 to cross with1590 countermand1592 forstand1599 opposit1600 thorter1608 obviate1609 disputea1616 obstrigillate1623 contradict1632 avert1635 to set one's hand against1635 top1641 militate1642 to come across ——1653 contrariate1656 to cross upon (or on)1661 shock1667 clash1685 rencounter1689 obtend1697 counteract1708 oppugnate1749 retroact?1761 controvert1782 react1795 to set against ——1859 appose- the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > specifically of things warc1230 repugnc1450 oppugn1584 militate1642 to give against ——1646 the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > contrary evidence > contradict, go against [verb (transitive)] traverse1491 to make against ——a1540 contradict1593 to give the lie (to)1593 dementie1594 belie1624 militate1642 contravenea1670 disconfirm1827 contra-indicate1880 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > be unharmonious or incongruous with [verb (transitive)] > be inconsistent with competition1650 militate1756 1642 P. Heylyn Hist. Episcopacie ii. i. 4 The discourse of Clemens..doth militate aswell against the one, as against the other. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 439 It militates with the reveled truths of God. 1791 E. Burke Appeal New to Old Whigs 45 Something..which militates with any rational plan. 1796 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. III. 355 It militated directly against the principle..laid down. a1852 D. Webster Wks. (1877) III. 210 Dispatches are read, which, it is said militate with one another. 3. transitive. To dispute, debate (a question); to contravene, to conflict with; to inhibit or prevent. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > controversy, dispute, argument > argue about, dispute [verb (transitive)] traverse?1504 arguea1513 to stand in terms?a1562 to stand with ——1579 argle1589 bandy1589 balk1590 ventilate1607 controvert1609 sticklea1661 chop1685 militate1754 1754 A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 78. 162 The present question must be militated before any other question can be received. 1762 S. Foote Orators i. 15 When affairs of state are weigh'd at a common-council, religious points militated at the Robin-hood,..or politicks debated near Westminster-abby [etc.]. 1822 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 27 July 2/1 He militates not only common sense, but even common decency, contra bonos mores. 1857 J. Hyde Mormonism iv. 96 To hold no trust as sacred, no duty obligatory, no promise or oath binding that militates or infringes the interests of the Church. 1990 Marxism Today June 26/2 According to some journalists..there is less ‘caballing’ in today's newspaper office, and working conditions militate a sense of common interest, common identity and shared concerns among staff. Atomisation is the keyword here. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1598
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