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justificate

justificate verb: to provide a justification for; to justify.

Verb

justificate (third-person singular simple present justificates, present participle justificating, simple past and past participle justificated)

  1. To provide a justification for; to justify.
    • Accordingly, when an application was made for the first quarter's rent, Mr. Cincinnatus W. Sloaker coolly returned for answer, that " he knew of no obligation no-how to justificate him to part with a cent's worth of scrapins until the correct balance of time was figured up;" and, therefore, all...1851, Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton, The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 92, page 446
    • These arguments are used to justificate the preference for the road transport.1993, Carlos E. Myreböe, A Study of Two Export Processes of Eucalyptuswood from Uruguay

Forms of justificate

third-person singular presentjustificates
present participlejustificating
past participlejustificated
pastjustificated

Questions about justificate

What does justificate mean?
Justificate means to provide a justification for; to justify.
What part of speech is justificate?
Justificate is a verb.
What is the past tense of justificate?
The past tense of justificate is justificated.

Words near justificate in the dictionary

  1. justifiable homicides
  2. justifiableness
  3. justifiably
  4. justificanda
  5. justificandum
  6. justificate
  7. justificated
  8. justificates
  9. justificating
  10. justification
  11. justificational

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