modificate

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modificate¹

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

verb modificates · modificating · 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

modificate²

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

verb modificates · modificating · modificated

  1. nonstandard 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 -e)

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@misc{modificate_2026,
  title = {modificate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/modificate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}