militate

From Latin mīlitātus, from mīlitō. Originally meant "to be a soldier; to fight".

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɪlɪteɪt/

• Audio (London, England)

  (file)

militate (third-person singular simple present militates, present participle militating, simple past and past participle militated)

1. To give force or effect toward; to influence.

   to militate in favor of a particular result

   to militate against the possibility of his election

   • 1944 January and February, W. J. Reynolds, “Locomotive No. 1007 of the Great Northern Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 7:

     The 8-ft. singles were pre-eminently express engines, and were not satisfactory on secondary duties where frequent stops were called for, which militated against their being retained in service.

   • 2012, James Lambert, “Beyond Hobson-Jobson: A new lexicography for Indian English”, in World Englishes‎, page 308:

     There are a number of theoretical concerns which might seem to militate against the successful creation of a dictionary of Indian English.

2. (obsolete) To fight.

• “militate”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “militate-against” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• limitate

militate

1. present adverbial passive participle of militi

militate

1. inflection of militare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

militate f pl

1. feminine plural of militato

• limitate, metilati

mīlitāte

1. vocative masculine singular of mīlitātus

militate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of militar combined with te