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militate, v.|ˈmɪlɪteɪt|
[f. L. mīlitāt-, ppl. stem of mīlitāre to serve as a soldier, f. mīlit-, mīles soldier: see -ate3.]
1. a. intr. Of persons: To serve as a soldier; to take part in warfare.
1625W. B. True School War 41 This..moues many Italian Caualiers to militate in the warres of Holland. 1662Earl of Orrery State Lett. (1743) II. 437 The faithful Christians..militating against the hereticks. 1769Burke Late St. Nat. Wks. 1842 I. 82 The supply of her armies militating in so many distant countries. 1831–40K. Digby Mores Catholici (1847) III. 148 Men who militate merely for pay. 1832De Quincey Cæsars Wks. 1859 X. 216 Originally it had militated for glory and power; now its militancy was for a free movement of aspiring and hopeful existence.
†b. transf. and fig. To contend, make war, exert power or influence; to strive. Obs.
1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 199 Lest..whiles they seeke to deserve well of the Common-wealth, they militate to the private lust of any. 1675Baxter Cath. Theol. i. iii. 22 God doth not militate against himself. 1735Berkeley Reasons §17 This learned professor, who at bottom militates on my side. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxvii. III. 64 The invisible powers of heaven..seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor. 1799E. Du Bois Piece Family Biog. III. 157 To incur the severe displeasure of his father and sir David, by disobeying the one, and militating against the peace of the other, was what he could not bear. 1851Landor Popery 36 They who litigate and militate in the church about him.
c. To display industrial or political intransigence; to act in the manner of a militant (sense c).
1951E. Paul Springtime in Paris xvi. 321 Busse knew all too well what happened to French Communists who showed disloyalty, or even who failed to ‘militate’. 1969N.Y. Rev. Bks. 30 Jan. 4/3 Simone Weil going to work in a factory and eventually starving herself to death in order to share the diet of the people of occupied France was answering the same ‘call’ as..Silone militating in the underground, in clandestinity.
2. Of things.
†a. To conflict, be inconsistent with; also (of speech or action), to be directed against. Obs.
b. Of evidence, facts, circumstances: To have force, ‘tell’ against (rarely † for, in favour of) some conclusion or result.
1642Heylin Hist. Episc. ii. 4 The discourse of Clemens..doth militate as well against the one, as against the other. 1658Baxter Saving Faith 22 Your reasons..do learnedly militate for the Assertion that I maintain. 1756T. Amory Buncle (1770) II. 193 It militates with the revealed truths of God. 1791Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 132 Something which militates with any rational plan. 1796Earl Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. III. 355 It militated directly against the principle..laid down. 1804tr. La Marteliere's Three Gil Blas II. 272 The same reasons militated in their favour. 1816Peacock Headlong Hall xiii, Your observation militates on my side of the question. 1838Sir W. Hamilton Logic xxxiv. (1866) II. 195 Everything may militate for, and nothing militate against, its authenticity. a1852Webster Wks. (1877) III. 210 Dispatches are read, which, it is said militate with one another. 1853Mansel Lett., Lect., etc. (1873) App. 102 The whole character and history of mathematical science militates against the admission of this consequence. 1864Maine Anc. Law 122 Its connexion with Scripture rather militated than otherwise against its reception as a complete theory. 1874A. J. Christie in Ess. Relig. & Lit. Ser. iii. 65 The same reasons which militated in favour of the necessity of the Church's living authority in the first four centuries, militate for it now.
†3. trans. To fight out, debate (a question). Obs.
1754A. Murphy Gray's Inn Jrnl. No. 78 The present question must be militated before any other question can be received. 1762Foote Orator i. Wks. 1799 I. 198 When affairs of state are weighed at a common-council, religious points militated at the Robin Hood,..or politics debated near Westminster-abbey [etc.].
Hence miliˈtation, conflict.
1659Z. Crofton in Morn. Exerc. (1845) V. 387 Repentance doth not cut down sin at a blow; no, it is a constant militation, and course of mortification. 1778B. Lincoln in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) II. 241 Dissension between the civil and military, and a militation of orders. |