justificate

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

1. To provide a justification for; to justify.
   • 1851, Thomas Campbell, ‎Samuel Carter Hall, ‎Edward Bulwer Lytton, The New Monthly Magazine - Volume 92, page 446:

     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 that Mr. Poppyhead took by his motion was the conviction that — to continue the phraseology of Mr. Sloaker — he was "drawn out cold," which, being interpreted, means that he was "done" in every kind of way.

   • 1993, Carlos E. Myreböe, A Study of Two Export Processes of Eucalyptuswood from Uruguay:

     These arguments are used to justificate the preference for the road transport.

   • 2012, Piero Giordanetti, ‎Riccardo Pozzo, ‎Marco Sgarbi, Kant's Philosophy of the Unconscious, →ISBN, page 86:

     I will now turn to the theme of the unconscious by maintaining that there is no possibility for Kant to justificate the reality of moral consciousness through the a priori feelings without adopting the view that the origin of them lies in the fundus animae.

justificāte

1. vocative masculine singular of justificātus