What does justificate mean?
Justificate means To provide a justification for; to justify..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To provide a justification for; to justify..
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.
These arguments are used to justificate the preference for the road transport.
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.
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Justificate means To provide a justification for; to justify..
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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.
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