difficilitate

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verb

To make difficult.

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Meanings

verbdifficilitate (third-person singular simple present difficilitates, present participle difficilitating, simple past and past participle difficilitated)

present singular third person difficilitates · participle present difficilitating · participle past difficilitated · past difficilitated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo make difficult.

    The German syntax is replete with irregularities , one of the means by which that too indegestible language , as the Italians term it , is difficilitated.

    1825, Samuel Oliver, A General Critical Grammar of the Inglish Language

Origin

From Classical Latin difficilis + -itate. By surface analysis, difficile + -itate.

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APA

difficilitate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/difficilitate

MLA

“difficilitate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/difficilitate. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “difficilitate,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/difficilitate.

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