militate
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin mīlitātus, from mīlitō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈmɪlɪteɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
[edit]militate (third-person singular simple present militates, present participle militating, simple past and past participle militated)
- To give force or effect toward; to influence.
- Synonym: (proscribed) mitigate
- to militate in favor of a particular result
- to militate against the possibility of his election
- 1944 January and February, W. J. Reynolds, “Locomotive No. 1007 of the Great Northern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:
- The 8-ft. singles were pre-eminently express engines, and were not satisfactory on secondary duties where frequent stops were called for, which militated against their being retained in service.
- 2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, chapter 3, in Illusion of Order:
- There are no missing values for burglary victimization in the data, whereas there are ten missing values for robbery―and as many for physical assault. This fact would militate in favor of using burglary as the independent variable.
- 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes[1], page 308:
- There are a number of theoretical concerns which might seem to militate against the successful creation of a dictionary of Indian English.
- (obsolete) To serve as a soldier or participate in warfare.
- 1625, Nathanael Brent, Free Schoole of Warre:
- This..moues many Italian Caualiers to militate in the warres of Holland.
Translations
[edit]to influence
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References
[edit]- “militate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- “militate-against”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
Anagrams
[edit]Esperanto
[edit]Adverb
[edit]militate
- present adverbial passive participle of militi
Italian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]militate
- inflection of militare:
Etymology 2
[edit]Participle
[edit]militate f pl
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]mīlitāte
Spanish
[edit]Verb
[edit]militate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of militar combined with te
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