facilite

See also: facilité

English

Etymology

From Middle French faciliter.

Verb

facilite (third-person singular simple present facilites, present participle faciliting, simple past and past participle facilited)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of facilitate.
   • 1581 winter (indicated as 1582), R[obert] P[ersons], “The Second Let of Resolution Which Is, the Supposed Hardnes and Asperitie of Vertuous Life. […]”, in The First Booke of the Christian Exercise, Appertayning to Resolution. […], [Rouen, Normandy]: [George Flinton], →OCLC, page 473:

     In the firſt [part] vvhereof, ſhal be ſhevved the manifould and ſundrie helpes, that almightie God doth lend to man, for the faciliting of the vvaye of his holy commaundements; […]

   • 1604, Thomas Wright, “Propter quid”, in The Passions of the Minde in Generall. […], London: […] Valentine Simmes for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC, page 193:

     Many ſimilitudes or diſsimilitudes, examples, contrarieties, effects repugnant, may eaſilie be inuented, readily deliuered, and in a moment vnderſtood; ſo that by this meanes profound conceit ſhall bee facilited, and there with the auditors inſtructed, delighted, and moued.

   • 1846, Henry R[owe] Schoolcraft, “Building of the first vessel on the upper lakes”, in Notes on the Iroquois: or, Contributions to the Statistics, Aboriginal History, Antiquities and General Ethnology of Western New York, New York, N.Y.: Bartlett & Welford, […], →OCLC, page 166:

     The enterprise of Sa Salle, in constructing a vessel above the falls of Niagara, in 1679, to facilite his voyage to the Illinois and the Mississippi, is well known; […]

   • 1858 September 7, W[illia]m Mt. Storm, “Stamping Milk Cans”, in Scientific American. […], volume XIV, number 2, New York, N.Y.: Munn & Co., published 1858 September 18, →ISSN, →OCLC, “Patent Claims” section, page 11, column 1:

     [T]wo parts of the press may be combined and operated through the thickness of the can to perform its office, and thereafter be readily separated and removed, substantially as described, the purpose being to facilite the marking of such cans after construction is completed.

French

Verb

facilite

1. inflection of faciliter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• félicita
• ficelait

Portuguese

Verb

facilite

1. inflection of facilitar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

facilite

1. inflection of facilitar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative