Difficultate
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To render difficult; to difficilitate. rare
"and lest this foresayd entervew should be letted or difficultated by entreatyng those thyngeis, which Your Highnes send now with Master Boner , they grett y feryd , and for that there councel was , that we should in no wise do or say, at thys tyme, whereby we should exasperate the Pope, and bryng Hym in a desperacion by the whiche He should breke fromme the foresayde resolucyon, whiche should be as they said a hurte unrecoverable."
Example
More examples"and lest this foresayd entervew should be letted or difficultated by entreatyng those thyngeis, which Your Highnes send now with Master Boner , they grett y feryd , and for that there councel was , that we should in no wise do or say, at thys tyme, whereby we should exasperate the Pope, and bryng Hym in a desperacion by the whiche He should breke fromme the foresayde resolucyon, whiche should be as they said a hurte unrecoverable."
Etymology
From Latin difficultāt-, past participial stem of difficultō. By surface analysis, difficult + -ate (verb-forming suffix).
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