facilitationn.

1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent viii. 769 For facilitation heereof [It. il che per facilitar], it [sc. the Synod] doth renew some things decreed by the holy Canons.

1639 Queen Henrietta Maria Let. Coll. Recusants Mony for Sc. Warre 17 Apr. in Coppy Lett. (1641) 2 This our first recommendation will be so complyed with all, as may not onely afford us particular satisfaction, but also, facilitation towards their owne advantages.

1650 E. Williams Virgo Triumphans 34 What ever means, what ever curiosity, art, or precept, may contribute towards the preparing and facilitation of a worke, yet the end, the event must depend on his eternall goodnesse to crowne it.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 103. ⁋5 The use of their discoveries to the facilitation of commerce.

1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 102 This facilitation of conveyance would contribute much to the improvements in the northern parts of the island.

1835 W. G. Simms Partisan II. xvii. 160 [The boats] which he still employed for his own purposes in the swamp, gathering provisions, and for the facilitation of his own progress.

1862 T. A. Trollope Lenten Journey ix. 134 Impediment to free locomotion was a very much more important consideration than facilitation of it.

?1943 J. R. R. Tolkien Lett. (1981) 61 Anyone..can see that the enormous extension and facilitation of ‘divorce’ in our days..has done great social harm.

1998 Town & Country Planning 67 37/2 A training event for keen volunteers confirms that facilitation is not a skill everyone can learn.

1648 W. Montagu Miscellanea Spiritualia i. x. §6. 118 A generall habit of sincerity, which when it is referred to religious uses, proves a facilitation towards fidelity and perseverance in them.

1790 J. Sutherland Let. 10 June in Let. to Electors (1791) 43 Your goodness will induce you to contribute every possible facilitation towards that desirable end.

1823 C. Lamb Corr. (1870) 218 The impediments and facilitations to a sound belief are various.

1869 Manufacturer & Builder Dec. 356/3 This studio work is obviously a great facilitation to the mosaic artist's task.

1925 W. W. Willoughby Opium as Internat. Probl. ii. 11 As a further facilitation to this illegal trade, a British ordinance was passed which enabled Chinese boats, many of which were engaged in the trade, to fly the British flag.

2000 E. O. Wright Class Counts (new ed.) i. v. 96 Three ways in which these class mechanisms might generate obstacles and facilitations to friendship formation.

1894 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 6 263 The results of the activity of the nervous system upon its own condition have been grouped under the summation, facilitation and diffusion of stimuli, practice, fatigue and habit.

1906 C. S. Sherrington Integrative Action Nerv. Syst. v. 176 He argues..that the seat of production of the facilitation lies in the spinal cord.

1940 G. S. Carter Gen. Zool. Invertebr. xvi. 299 Interneural facilitation at a synapse must be distinguished from ‘neuro-muscular facilitation’.

1974 V. B. Mountcastle et al. Med. Physiol. (ed. 13) I. 204/2 The facilitation is due to increased release of neurotransmitter from each tetanized presynaptic terminal during subsequent activation.

2005 Science 14 Jan. 182/1 During learning, in a process termed long-term potentiation or long-term facilitation, synapses are specifically modified by a process that involves transcription.