Facilitating

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Facilitate \Fa*cil"i*tate\ (f[.a]*s[i^]l"[i^]*t[=a]t), v. t.
     [imp. & p. p. {Facilitated} (f[.a]*s[i^]l"[i^]*t[=a]`t[e^]d);
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Facilitating}
     (f[.a]*s[i^]l"[i^]*t[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [Cf. F. faciliter. See
     {Facility}.]
     To make easy or less difficult; to free from difficulty or


     impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the
     execution of a task.
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           To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which
           the times call for.                      --I. Taylor.
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