What is the difference between effectuate and accomplish?

Effectuate is a synonym of accomplish.

is that effectuate is to be the cause of something while accomplish is to finish successfully.

(effectuat)

To be the cause of something.

To bring about something; to effect or execute something.

(Webster 1913)

To finish successfully.

To complete, as time or distance.

* That He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem. - Daniel 9:2

* He had accomplished half a league or more. -

To bring to an issue of full success; to effect; to perform; to execute fully; to fulfill; as, to accomplish a design, an object, a promise.

* This that is written must yet be accomplished in me - Luke 22:37

(archaic) To equip or furnish thoroughly; hence, to complete in acquirements; to render accomplished; to polish.

* The armorers accomplishing the knights - Shakespeare, Henry V, IV-chorus

* It [the moon] is fully accomplished for all those ends to which Providence did appoint it. -

* These qualities . . . go to accomplish a perfect woman. -

(obsolete) To gain; to obtain

:(Shakespeare)

* do, perform, fulfill, realize, effect, effectuate, complete, consummate, execute, achieve, perfect, equip, furnish, carry out

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