To friendship or show friendship; an archaic term meaning to foster affection or act as a friend.
Formed from Latin 'amicus' meaning 'friend' combined with the suffix '-ate' (to make or act as), though usage is extremely rare and largely obsolete. The word emerges in medieval texts but never gained common currency in English.
This word is so rare that it barely exists in modern English—it's like a linguistic ghost, appearing in a few 14th-century manuscripts but never developing into everyday usage, perhaps because 'befriend' worked just as well.
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