'Habilitate' definitions:

Definition of 'habilitate'

verb

Qualify for teaching at a university in Europe; "He habilitated after his sabbatical at a prestigious American university"

verb

Provide with clothes or put clothes on; "Parents must feed and dress their child" [syn: dress, clothe, enclothe, garb, raiment, tog, garment, habilitate, fit out, apparel] [ant: discase, disrobe, peel, strip, strip down, uncase, unclothe, undress]

From: GCIDE

Habilitate \Ha*bil"i*tate\ (h[.a]*b[i^]l"[i^]*t[asl]t), a. [LL. habilitatus, p. p. of habilitare to enable.] Qualified or entitled. [Obs.] --Bacon. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Habilitate \Ha*bil"i*tate\ (h[.a]*b[i^]l"[i^]*t[=a]t), v. t. To fit out; to equip; to qualify; to entitle. --Johnson. [1913 Webster]