habilitate

English

Etymology

Late Latin habilitatus, past participle of habilitare (“to enable”).

Adjective

habilitate (comparative more habilitate, superlative most habilitate)

  1. (obsolete) Qualified or entitled.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

Verb

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

  1. European institutions of higher education: To qualify as an instructor or professor. Usually associated with defense of a dissertation or similar project.

Latin

Verb

habilitāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of habilitō
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.