militiate

English

Etymology

Variant of militate (possibly influenced by militia), from Latin milito.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /mɪˈlɪʃieɪt/

Verb

militiate (third-person singular simple present militiates, present participle militiating, simple past and past participle militiated)

  1. (obsolete) To wage, or prepare for, war.
    • November 16 1759, Horace Walpole, letter to Sir Horace Mann
      We continue to militiate , and to raise light troops , and when we have armed every apprentice in England , I suppose we shall translate our fears to Germany

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “militiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Verb

militiate

  1. second-person plural present subjunctive of militare

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