Associations to the word «Habilitate»

Wiktionary

HABILITATE, adjective. (obsolete) Qualified or entitled.
HABILITATE, verb. European institutions of higher education: To qualify as an instructor or professor. Usually associated with defense of a dissertation or similar project.

Dictionary definition

HABILITATE, verb. Qualify for teaching at a university in Europe; "He habilitated after his sabbatical at a prestigious American university".
HABILITATE, verb. Provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats