v. rare. [L. stabilitāt- ppl. stem of stabilitāre, f. stabilitās STABILITY.] trans. To give stability to.

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1642.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. I. ii. 43. The soul about it self circumgyrates Her various forms, and what she most doth love She oft before herself stabilitates.

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1657.  Billingsly, Brachy-Martyrol., xxi. 73. Do you then … still think good for to stabilitate your throne with blood?

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1804.  W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., II. 335. These arguments all tend to stabilitate his institutions.

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1835.  Blackw. Mag., XXXVII. 280. Many sacred sympathies that will yet survive all this hubbub, and stabilitate the structure of social life.

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1860.  W. H. Russell, Diary in India, xii. I. 180. The work reserved for him who shall come to stabilitate our empire in the East.

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