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
Etymology
Origin of habilitate
First recorded in 1595–1605; from Medieval Latin habilitātus, past participle of habilitāre “to make fit”; see ability, -ate 1
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Several attempts had been made to habilitate Oscar Wilde's drama on the New York stage, and had failed.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
But sorrow and disaster have followed upon innumerable efforts to habilitate it in the opera houses of the world.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
Before the regular subscription season, 1900-01, the Metropolitan Opera House was the scene of an ambitious effort to habilitate opera in English, which was made by Henry W. Savage in co-operation with Maurice Grau.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
E. Jerome Scott New York City It is ridiculous to talk about rehabilitation of children who have never been habilitated!
From Time Magazine Archive
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.
From A Little Tour in France by James, Henry
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 The Blue Goose by Nason, Frank Lewis
After the lapse of twenty years it is still impossible to say that "Otello" has really been habilitated in New York.
From Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
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 The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator by Various
At the start of this event, undoubtedly the most intrinsically pure on tour, mates hanging, hunting and habilitating in unison, the local tribal chiefs hosted a traditional kava ceremony.
From Time Magazine Archive
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