Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Facilitate

Facilitate (fȧ*sil"i*tāt) , transitive verb

[Compare French 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.
To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. — I. Taylor