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ineffectuate

verb

Etymology

From ineffectu(al) + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

  1. derived from effectualis
  2. derived from effectuel
  3. inherited from effectual
  4. formed as ineffectual — “in- + effectual”
  5. formed as ineffectuate — “ineffectual + -ate”

Definitions

  1. To make ineffectual

    To make ineffectual; to disable.

    • The case of the Malinau study provides an excellent example of how the social and political elements conspire to ineffectuate expert-led decisionmaking in the environmental planning process.
    • The existence of chaos does ineffectuate the Newtonian image of a clockwork universe and the Laplacean dream of a completely controllable world.
    • These groups of phytochemicals possess wide ranging chemical functional groups; by which they establish and bind to sites on target pathogens to ineffectuate them.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA