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)

  1. (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

  1. ^ difficilitate, v.”, in OED Online , Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.