habilitate

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habilitate - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Habilitate \Ha*bil"i*tate\ (h[.a]*b[i^]l"[i^]*t[asl]t), a. [LL.
     habilitatus, p. p. of habilitare to enable.]
     Qualified or entitled. [Obs.] --Bacon.
     [1913 Webster]

  Habilitate \Ha*bil"i*tate\ (h[.a]*b[i^]l"[i^]*t[=a]t), v. t.
     To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle. --Johnson.
     [1913 Webster]

habilitate - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  habilitate
      v 1: qualify for teaching at a university in Europe; "He
           habilitated after his sabbatical at a prestigious American
           university"
      2: provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed
         and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe,
         garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out,
         apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip,
         strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress]