inficiate

动词 v.
/ɪnˈfɪʃiˌeɪt/    /ɪnˈfɪʃiˌeɪt/

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To render or demonstrate to be invalid; to invalidate or disprove. transitive
    — This logical contradiction which therefore inficiates the validity of a notion can have two aspects: either the notion reached by our argument is uncertain, that is it is not the only one which may be derived as a conclusion from our syllogism and then we have the aniścita or it is a petitio principi^([sic]), the sādhyasama.

词形变化

inficiates present,singular,third-person inficiating participle,present inficiated participle,past inficiated past

词源

Borrowed from Italian inficiare + English -ate (suffix forming verbs), from Medieval Latin īnficior, alteration of Classical Latin īnfitior (“to deny, contradict”), from *īnfitiae (“denial”) (see īnfitiās eō), from fateor (“to admit, acknowledge”).
Presumably originally a mistranslation by Italian speakers; compare aprimorate (“to elevate, improve”), taken from Portuguese in a similar manner.
Earlier mentions of the word in Randle Cotgrave and Henry Cockeram's Early Modern English dictionaries are likely unconnected to the modern borrowing from Italian.
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