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Qualify
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To reduce from a general, undefined, or comprehensive form, to particular or restricted form; to modify; to limit; to restrict; to restrain; as, to qualify a statement, claim, or proposition.
(2):
(v. t.) To soothe; to cure; - said of persons.
(3):
(v. t.) To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an employment or privilege; to supply with legal power or capacity.
(4):
(v. t.) Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.
(5):
(v. t.) To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.
(6):
(v. i.) To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.
(7):
(v. i.) To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Qualify'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/q/qualify.html. 1828.
