habilitate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to clothe or dress.
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to make fit.
verb (used without object)
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to become fit.
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(in European and other educational systems) to qualify as professor or instructor after having earned one’s doctorate.
verb
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(tr) to equip and finance (a mine)
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(intr) to qualify for office
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archaic (tr) to clothe
Other Word Forms
- habilitation noun
- habilitative adjective
- habilitator noun
Etymology
Origin of habilitate
First recorded in 1595–1605; from Medieval Latin habilitātus, past participle of habilitāre “to make fit”; ability, -ate 1
Example Sentences
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The tents put up in the square have not endured the rain very well but the town hall and school have also been habilitated.
From BBC
Morrison was habilitated in his usual full dress—that is, in his shirt-sleeves, unbuttoned vest, a collarless shirt flecked with irregular, yellowish dots, and a glowing diamond.
From Project Gutenberg
It is by this noble slowness that the highest minds faintly emulate that inconceivable deliberateness and delicacy of gradation with which solar systems are built and worlds habilitated.
From Project Gutenberg
But sorrow and disaster have followed upon innumerable efforts to habilitate it in the opera houses of the world.
From Project Gutenberg
He has been re- habilitated, however, by an age which does not fear the imputation of paradox, and a marble statue of him ornaments the street in front of his house.
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