Meanings
present singular third person possibilitates · participle present possibilitating · participle past possibilitated · past possibilitated
- rareTo make possible.
[…]but ſhew mercy on them, that they may be in poſſibility of repentance, pardon, and grace, which interceſſion anſwereth Chriſts dying, as it reſpecteth all, which was to poſſibilitate their Salvation.
a. 1640, John Ball, A Treatise of the Covenant of Grace: […], London: […] G. Miller for Edward Brewster […], published 1645, page 2603 more examples
It was ‘manifestly impossible,’ said the statement, ‘to provide a course of professional education for the ministers of religion of those congregations who do not belong to the established church.’ But that this object has been possibilitated, must be understood from a resolution recently past,—‘[…].’
1829, “1. Principles of Elementary Teaching, chiefly in reference to the Parochial Schools of Scotland; in two Letters to T. F. Kennedy, Esq., M.P. By James Pillans, […].”, in The Quarterly Review, volume XXXIX, London: John Murray, […], page 134It is a common mistake, made by those, who, in studying, no matter what be their object, fail to discover the forest they are looking for, for reason of the many trees they find in their way, to disconnect thought and sense, looking at the former as a form and a field of mental acquisition altogether of its own, and possibilitating a cognition which is entirely out of the reach of sense and common judgment.
1890 January, C. A. F. Lindorme, “The Biology of Thought, with Special Reference to the Alienation of the Mind”, in Egbert Guernsey, Alfred K. Hills, editors, The New York Medical Times, a Monthly Journal of Medicine, Surgery and the Collateral Sciences, volume XVII, number 10, New York, N.Y.: […], page 301[…]where a non-normal world is (as before) one where, though all truth-functional tautologies hold and no truth-functional contradictions hold, no necessitated statements hold, and accordingly all possibilitated statements hold.
1983, Richard Sylvan, Nihilisms, and Nihilist Logics, page 25
Origin
From Classical Latin possibilis + -itate. By surface analysis, possibility + -ate (verb-forming suffix). Compare Medieval Latin possibilitō and Spanish posibilitar.
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