effectivate
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effectivate (third-person singular simple present effectivates, present participle effectivating, simple past and past participle effectivated)
- (transitive) To make effective.
- 2013, R. R. O'Moore, B. Barber, P. L. Reichertz, Medical Informatics Europe 82:
- The main aim was to facilitate and effectivate information retrieval and update in all the institutions concerned.
- 2003, Volker M. Welter, Iain Boyd Whyte, Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life, page 193:
- If, as Geddes explains, a woman does not "effectivate her sex," she would thus pass "from girlhood phase of Artemis to the grey hairs of Demeter. Hence again her way divides: at best to sisterhood and vice-motherhood," […]