qualifying

Verb

qualify (third-person singular simple present qualifies, present participle qualifying, simple past and past participle qualified)

1. (transitive) To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities.
2. (intransitive) To successfully fall under some category or description by meeting requisite conditions.
   • Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.1999, Matthew C. Bagger, Religious Experience, Justification, and History, →ISBN, page 62
3. (transitive) To make someone competent or eligible for some position or task.
   • They usually spoke of this connection as a longing for the purer life of Attic civilization, but that was a delusion which even they recognized — the position of slaves and women hardly qualified Classical antiquity as an ideal of freedom.1986 February 15, Michael Bronski, “Male Nudes: In His Own Image”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 31, page 8
4. (intransitive, reflexive) To become competent or eligible for some position or task.
   • He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession.1856 December, [Thomas Babington] Macaulay, “Samuel Johnson”, in T[homas] F[lower] E[llis], editor, The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, new edition, London: Longman, Green...
5. (transitive) To certify or license someone for something.
6. (transitive) To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true.
   • O! never say that I was false of heart,
     Though absence seem'd my flame to qualify1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 109”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC

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