All 3 Uses
facilitate
in
Washington's Farewell Address
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- It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions.†
*facilitated = made easier
- To facilitate to them the performance of their duty, it is essential that you should practically bear in mind that towards the payment of debts there must be revenue; that to have revenue there must be taxes; that no taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant; that the intrinsic embarrassment, inseparable from the selection of the proper objects (which is always a choice of difficulties), ought to be a decisive motive for a candid construction of the conduct of the government in making it, and for a spirit of acquiescence in the measures for obtaining revenue, which the public exigencies may at any time dictate.†
facilitate = make easier
- Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification.†
facilitating = making easier
Definitions:
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(1)
(facilitate) make easier
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)