effectivate

effectivate

English

Etymology

    From effective + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

    Verb

    effectivate (third-person singular simple present effectivates, present participle effectivating, simple past and past participle effectivated)

    1. (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," []