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 - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne