militate

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  1. intransitive verb To have force or influence; bring about an effect or a change: "All these factors militated to a different targeting priority” (Tom Clancy). "The chaste banality of his prose . . . militates against the stories' becoming literature” (Anthony Burgess).

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  1. Latin mīlitāre, mīlitāt-, to serve as a soldier, from mīles, mīlit-, soldier.

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  1. from Latin militatus, past participle of militare, (later Italian militare = Portuguese Spanish militar = French militer), be a soldier, from miles (milit-), a soldier: see military.
 

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/ˈmɪlɪteɪt/
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