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Definition of Militate
1. Verb. Have force or influence; bring about an effect or change. "Politeness militated against this opinion being expressed"
Definition of Militate
1. v. i. To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with.
Definition of Militate
1. Verb. To give force or effect toward; to influence. ¹
2. Verb. (obsolete) To fight. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Militate
1. to have influence or effect [v -TATED, -TATING, -TATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Militate
Literary usage of Militate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life by George Eliot (1873)
"Where you frequent a house it may militate very much against a girl's making a
desirable settlement in life, and prevent her from accepting ofters even if ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"... does not militate against our position, as that was a case against a foreign
corporation where there was no statute law of the forum giving it a legal ..."
3. Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel: With Supplementary Extracts from the by John Earle, Charles Plummer (1899)
"... was of opinion that there was nothing in the handwriting to militate against
this conclusion. He thought the earliest hands might he as early as 1050. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Having embraced Catholicism he visited Rome and Flanders, where, in 1592, he "
elected to militate under the Jesuits' standard, because they do most impugn ..."
5. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835)
"The severity of the approaching season, and every other circumstance, appear to
me to militate against an attack upon our possessions this winter, ..."
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