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habilitate

habilitate adjective: qualified or entitled.

Adjective

habilitate (comparative more habilitate, superlative most habilitate)

  1. (obsolete) Qualified or entitled.
    • persons[…]not legal, nor habilitate to serve in Parliament,1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret...

Verb

habilitate (third-person singular simple present habilitates, present participle habilitating, simple past and past participle habilitated)

  1. (transitive) To enable one to function in a given manner; to make one capable of performing a given function or of conducting something; to make one fit to fulfill a given purpose or competent to act within a particular role.
  2. (intransitive) To qualify oneself, through a demonstration of ability, to function in a certain capacity or to act within a certain role.
  3. In European institutions of higher education, to qualify as an instructor or professor, usually by defending a dissertation or similar project.
  4. (US) To supply money to work a mine.
  5. (dated, figuratively, often) To clothe.
    • Exteriors habilitated in the glowing colors of fresh and soft-hued paint.1874, Charles Philip Johnson, The Social Evil
    • Fred. Wickersham, and those who attended him on this sad pilgrimage, had the deceased each habilitated in appropriate apparel, and arrangements made for their conveyance to Healdsburg.1889, An Illustrated History of Sonoma County, California

habilitate meaning in Tamil and Urdu

habilitate in Tamil

பல்கலைக்கழகப் பதவிக்குத் தகுதியாகு

habilitate in Urdu

اہل بنانا, کان میں سرمایہ لگانا, لباس پہننا

Synonyms of habilitate

Forms of habilitate

Adjective
comparativemore habilitate
superlativemost habilitate
Verb
third-person singular presenthabilitates
present participlehabilitating
past participlehabilitated
pasthabilitated

Origin of habilitate

Borrowed from Late Latin habilitātus, past participle of habilitāre (“to enable”).

Words formed from habilitate

Questions about habilitate

What does habilitate mean?
Habilitate means qualified or entitled.
What is habilitate in Tamil?
Habilitate in Tamil is பல்கலைக்கழகப் பதவிக்குத் தகுதியாகு. See Habilitate meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is habilitate?
Habilitate can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near habilitate in the dictionary

  1. habilimentation
  2. habilimented
  3. habiliments
  4. habiline
  5. habilines
  6. habilitate
  7. habilitated
  8. habilitates
  9. habilitating
  10. habilitation
  11. habilitations

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: habilitate (page history and authors); habilitate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); habilitate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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