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单词 impossibilitate
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impossibilitatev.

Etymology: < impossibilit- (in impossibility n.) + -ate suffix3; compare Spanish imposibilitar, Italian impossibilitare.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: impossiˈbilitate.
rare.
transitive. To render impossible.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > impossibility > render impossible [verb (transitive)]
impossibilitate1633
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 14) 921 It [sc. covetousness] impossibilitates the entrance into heaven.
1646 King Charles I Let. in T. Carte Coll. Orig. Lett. (1735) III. 452 I..would do nothing to impossibilitate ayde [printed adye] from thence.
1834 R. Southey Doctor II. 116 How many accidents might for ever have impossibilitated the existence of this incomparable work!
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