habilitate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb qualify for teaching at a university in Europe
    • He habilitated after his sabbatical at a prestigious American university
  2. verb provide with clothes or put clothes on
    enclothe; garment; fit out; garb; raiment; apparel; dress; tog; clothe.
    • Parents must feed and dress their child

WordNet

Ha*bil"i*tate adjective
Etymology
LL. habilitatus, p. p. of habilitare to enable.
Definitions
  1. Qualified or entitled. Obs. Bacon.
Ha*bil"i*tate transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle. Johnson.

Webster 1913