beneficiate

beneficiate

English

Etymology

Spanish beneficia (“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).

Related terms

• beneficiation

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Italian

Verb

beneficiate

1. second-person plural present indicative of beneficiare
2. second-person plural imperative of beneficiare
3. second-person plural present subjunctive of beneficiare
4. feminine plural of beneficiato