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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Militated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Militating

[L.

militare

militatum

, to be a soldier, fr.

miles

militis

, soldier.]

To make war; to fight; to contend; – usually followed by against and with.

These are great questions, where great names

militate

against each other.

Burke.

The invisible powers of heaven seemed to

militate

on the side of the pious emperor.

Gibbon.

Verb.

[L. milito.] To militate against, is to oppose; to be or to act in opposition.

Paley writes, to militate with; but in America, against is generally used.