difficilitate
English
Etymology
From Classical Latin difficilis + -itate.[1] By surface analysis, difficile + -itate.
Verb
difficilitate (third-person singular simple present difficilitates, present participle difficilitating, simple past and past participle difficilitated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make difficult.
- 1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language:
- The German syntax is replete with irregularities , one of the means by which that too indegestible language , as the Italians term it , is difficilitated.
References
- “difficilitate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- ^ “difficilitate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.