facilite

present singular third person facilites · participle present faciliting · participle past facilited · past facilited

1. obsoleteSynonym of facilitate.

   The enterprise of Sa Salle, in constructing a vessel above the falls of Niagara, in 1679, to facilite his voyage to the Illinois and the Mississippi, is well known; […]

   1846, Henry R[owe] Schoolcraft, “Building of the first vessel on the upper lakes”, in Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New York, New York, N.Y.: Bartlett & Welford, […], →OCLC, page 166

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   In the firſt [part] vvhereof, ſhal be ſhevved the manifould and ſundrie helpes, that almightie God doth lend to man, for the faciliting of the vvaye of his holy commaundements; […]

   1581 winter (indicated as 1582), R[obert] P[ersons], “The Second Let of Resolution Which Is, the Supposed Hardnes and Asperitie of Vertuous Life. […]”, in The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution. […], [Rouen, Normandy]: [George Flinton], →OCLC, page 473

   Many ſimilitudes or diſsimilitudes, examples, contrarieties, effects repugnant, may eaſilie be inuented, readily deliuered, and in a moment vnderſtood; ſo that by this meanes profound conceit ſhall bee facilited, and there with the auditors inſtructed, delighted, and moued.

   1604, Thomas Wright, “Propter quid”, in The Passions of the Minde in Generall. […], London: […] Valentine Simmes for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, page 193

   [T]wo parts of the press may be combined and operated through the thickness of the can to perform its office, and thereafter be readily separated and removed, substantially as described, the purpose being to facilite the marking of such cans after construction is completed.

   1858 September 7, W[illia]m Mt. Storm, “Stamping Milk Cans”, in Scientific American. […], volume XIV, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Munn & Co., published 18 September 1858, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Patent Claims” section, page 11, column 1

   Synonyms: facilitate