justificate

present singular third person justificates · participle present justificating · participle past justificated · past justificated

1. To provide a justification for; to justify.

   These arguments are used to justificate the preference for the road transport.

   1993, Carlos E. Myreböe, A Study of Two Export Processes of Eucalyptuswood from Uruguay

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   Accordingly, when an application was made for the first quarter's rent, Mr. Cincinnatus W. Sloaker coolly returned for answer, that " he knew of no obligation no-how to justificate him to part with a cent's worth of scrapins until the correct balance of time was figured up;" and, therefore, all that Mr. Poppyhead took by his motion was the conviction that — to continue the phraseology of Mr. Sloaker — he was "drawn out cold," which, being interpreted, means that he was "done" in every kind of way.

   1851, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 92, page 446

   I will now turn to the theme of the unconscious by maintaining that there is no possibility for Kant to justificate the reality of moral consciousness through the a priori feelings without adopting the view that the origin of them lies in the fundus animae.

   2012, Piero Giordanetti, Riccardo Pozzo, Marco Sgarbi, Kant's Philosophy of the Unconscious, →ISBN, page 86