ichidan verb
to put into a state; to bring about a result
Archaic causative verb meaning 'to cause to become so' or 'to bring about a certain state/result'. Not used in modern Japanese; found in classical or literary contexts.
古い文献では、「然らしめる」が「そうさせる」の意味で使われることがある。
In old documents, 然らしめる is sometimes used to mean 'to cause to be so'.
Classical Japanese equivalent (shimo nidan verb) with the same meaning; 然らしめる is its modernized ichidan form, but both are archaic.
Derived from classical Japanese 然らしむ (shikarashimu), a causative form of 然り (shikari, 'to be so'). The exact historical development is uncertain, but it follows a pattern of classical causative verbs being modernized into ichidan verbs.