beneficiate

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English

Etymology

From Spanish beneficiar (“to benefit, to work mines”).

Verb

beneficiate (third-person singular simple present beneficiates, present participle beneficiating, simple past and past participle beneficiated)

  1. (mining, obsolete) To reduce (ores).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “beneficiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

beneficiate

  1. inflection of beneficiare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

beneficiate f pl

  1. feminine plural of beneficiato

Spanish

Verb

beneficiate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of beneficiar combined with te
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