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modificate

modificate verb: to qualify.

Verb (1)

modificate (third-person singular simple present modificates, present participle modificating, simple past and past participle modificated)

  1. (obsolete) To qualify.
    • The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ, and he shall reign for ever and ever, not only to the modificated eternity of his Mediatorship, so long as there shall be need of regal power to subdue the enemies of God's Elect; but also to the complete eternity of...1659, John Pearson, Exposition of the Creed

Verb (2)

modificate (third-person singular simple present modificates, present participle modificating, simple past and past participle modificated)

  1. (nonstandard, chiefly non-native speakers' English) To modify.
    • It seems that after the systemstartup of cron it reads the crontab-files in memory only once. After that moment cron wont^([sic]) reread a modificated crontab-file for normal users (it does for the crontab-file of root!). Everytime^([sic]) a normal user modificates his crontab-file (with crontab...1998 October 15, Peter van Empel, “After upgrade 4.0B - 4.0D -> weird cron”, in cu.alpha.managers (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026
    • The closest thing to it would be your "viral snippet" either covalently modificating the protein, i.e. chopping it up, which has not been detected, or allosterically modificating its shape which is possible an^([sic]) plausible.1999 March 19, Vitor Pinheiro, “unification of Alzheimers with Prion Disease”, in sci.bio.misc (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026

Examples of modificate in a sentence

  • After that moment cron wont^([sic]) reread a modificated crontab-file for normal users (it does for the crontab-file of root!).1998 October 15, Peter van Empel, “After upgrade 4.0B - 4.0D -> weird cron”, in cu.alpha.managers (Usenet), archived from the original on...
  • What's^([sic]) files i should modificate?, i've suppose i should modificate the file main.c and php_ini.c but i'm not sure .2002 January 11, Dcortada, “Win95 Installation on laptop”, in php.install (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026:

Forms of modificate

third-person singular presentmodificates
present participlemodificating
past participlemodificated
pastmodificated

Origin of modificate

Learned borrowing from Latin modificāt-, the past participial stem of modificō.

Back-formation from modification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Spanish, Galician, Portuguese, and Spanish modificar and Italian modificare, from Latin modificō.

Questions about modificate

What does modificate mean?
Modificate means to qualify.
How do you use modificate in a sentence?
After that moment cron wont^([sic]) reread a modificated crontab-file for normal users (it does for the crontab-file of root!).
What part of speech is modificate?
Modificate is a verb.
What is the past tense of modificate?
The past tense of modificate is modificated.

Words near modificate in the dictionary

  1. modifiably
  2. modificability
  3. modificable
  4. modificand
  5. modificands
  6. modificate
  7. modificated
  8. modificates
  9. modificating
  10. modification
  11. modification enzyme

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