Meanings
modificate1
present singular third person modificates · participle present modificating · participle past modificated · past modificated
- obsoleteTo qualify.
1 more example
The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever, not only to the modificated eternity of his Mediatorship, so long as there shall be need of regal power to subdue the enemies of God's Elect; but also to the complete eternity of the duration of his Humanity, which for the future is co-eternal to his Divinity.
1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed
modificate2
present singular third person modificates · participle present modificating · participle past modificated · past modificated
- nonstandardchiefly non-native speakers' EnglishTo modify.
The closest thing to it would be your "viral snippet" either covalently modificating the protein, i.e. chopping it up, which has not been detected, or allosterically modificating its shape which is possible an^([sic]) plausible.
1999 March 19, Vitor Pinheiro, “unification of Alzheimers with Prion Disease”, in sci.bio.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 20262 more examples
It seems that after the systemstartup of cron it reads the crontab-files in memory only once. After that moment cron wont^([sic]) reread a modificated crontab-file for normal users (it does for the crontab-file of root!). Everytime^([sic]) a normal user modificates his crontab-file (with crontab -e) , the FIFO get's^([sic]) the correct timestamp of change (this should be the trigger for cron to reread all the crontab-files, but it doesn't except for the root crontab-file).
1998 October 15, Peter van Empel, “After upgrade 4.0B - 4.0D -> weird cron”, in cu.alpha.managers (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026I've used POBS to ofuscate^([sic]) code but i've seen that isn't enough, and then i belive^([sic]) that i should modificate source code php-cgi and after php makes fopen() and before read() put my encrypt function . What's^([sic]) files i should modificate?, i've suppose i should modificate the file main.c and php_ini.c but i'm not sure .
2002 January 11, Dcortada, “Win95 Installation on laptop”, in php.install (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026
Origin
modificate · verb
- Latinmodificāt-
- Englishmodificate
Learned borrowing from Latin modificāt-, the past participial stem of modificō.
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Full word history & related roots →modificate · verb
- Latinmodificō
- Englishmodificate
Back-formation from modification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish modificar and Italian modificare, from Latin modificō.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
modificate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modificate
“modificate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modificate. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “modificate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/modificate.
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