habilitate

verb

Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin habilitātus, past participle of habilitāre (“to enable”).

Qualified or entitled.
“persons[…]not legal, nor habilitate to serve in Parliament,”

Etymology: Borrowed from Late Latin habilitātus, past participle of habilitāre (“to enable”).

To enable one to function in a given manner; to make one capable of performing a given function or of conducting something; to make one fit to fulfill a given purpose or competent to act within a particular role.
To qualify oneself, through a demonstration of ability, to function in a certain capacity or to act within a certain role.
In European institutions of higher education, to qualify as an instructor or professor, usually by defending a dissertation or similar project.
To supply money to work a mine.
To clothe.
“Exteriors habilitated in the glowing colors of fresh and soft-hued paint.”
“Fred. Wickersham, and those who attended him on this sad pilgrimage, had the deceased each habilitated in appropriate apparel, and arrangements made for their conveyance to Healdsburg.”