difficultate

To render difficult; to difficilitate.

Verb

  1. To render difficult; to difficilitate.
    • and lest this foresayd entervew should be letted or difficultated by entreatyng those thyngeis, which Your Highnes send now with Master Boner , they grett y feryd , and for that there councel was , that we should in no...
    • On the other hand, the low value found for the infection in the caudal fin, as compared with the other fins, is likely to be due to the more intense movements of the anal fin, therefore difficultating the penetration by...
    • They started to make connections and to play with the routine, adding complexities and difficultating it. - 2019, Dana Frantz Bentley, Mariana Souto-Manning, Pre-K Stories, page 86:

Origin

From Latin difficultāt-, past participial stem of difficultō. By surface analysis, difficult + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

Forms

difficultates difficultating difficultated