facilize

English

Alternative forms

  • facilise

Etymology

From facile +‎ -ize, originally after Italian facilitare.[1]

Verb

facilize (third-person singular simple present facilizes, present participle facilizing, simple past and past participle facilized)

  1. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To make something easy; to facilitate.
    • 1607, Edward Blount, Ars alica: or the courtiers arte, page 2:
      Wherefore in these, it is behooffull not to worke for proper commoditie, but for publike benefit; for that in this maner euery one as interessed, doe agree to effect and facilize the obtaining of that good which is desired.

References

  1. ^ “facilize, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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