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Qualified   /kwˈɑləfˌaɪd/   Listen
verb
Qualify  v. t.  (past & past part. qualified; pres. part. qualifying)  
1.
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. "He had qualified himself for municipal office by taking the oaths to the sovereigns in possession."
2.
To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. "It hath no larynx... to qualify the sound. "
3.
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.
4.
Hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors. "I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire, But qualify the fire's extreme rage."
5.
To soothe; to cure; said of persons. (Obs.) "In short space he has them qualified."
Synonyms: To fit; equip; prepare; adapt; capacitate; enable; modify; soften; restrict; restrain; temper.


Qualify  v. i.  
1.
To be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.
2.
To obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.


adjective
Qualified  adj.  
1.
Fitted by accomplishments or endowments.
2.
Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement.
Qualified fee (Law), a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs, tenants of the manor of Dale.
Qualified indorsement (Law), an indorsement which modifies the liability of the indorser that would result from the general principles of law, but does not affect the negotiability of the instrument.
Qualified negative (Legislation), a limited veto power, by which the chief executive in a constitutional government may refuse assent to bills passed by the legislative body, which bills therefore fail to become laws unless upon a reconsideration the legislature again passes them by a certain majority specified in the constitution, when they become laws without the approval of the executive.
Qualified property (Law), that which depends on temporary possession, as that in wild animals reclaimed, or as in the case of a bailment.
Synonyms: Competent; fit; adapted. Qualified, Competent. Competent is most commonly used with respect to native endowments and general ability suited to the performance of a task or duty; qualified with respect to specific acquirements and training.





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"Qualified" Quotes from Famous Books



... will get as will any man who appears properly accredited and properly qualified to proclaim the Gospel, but in the name of this Christian community, I will prevent the exploitation of ...
— The Major • Ralph Connor
... looked upon her as a second mother; and her affection for them, which was unbounded, deserved their regard. She was a perfect storehouse of what are termed "old women's receipts;" and there were few complaints (except the plague) for which she did not think herself qualified to prescribe and able to cure. Her skill in the healing art was often tested by her charitable mistress, who required her to prepare remedies, as well as nourishing broths, for such of the poor of the parish as applied to her for ...
— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth
... America nowadays, except, of course, language. Her eldest son, christened Washington by his parents in a moment of patriotism, which he never ceased to regret, was a fair-haired, rather good-looking young man, who had qualified himself for American diplomacy by leading the German at the Newport Casino for three successive seasons, and even in London was well known as an excellent dancer. Gardenias and the peerage were his only weaknesses. Otherwise he was extremely sensible. Miss Virginia E. Otis was ...
— The Canterville Ghost • Oscar Wilde
... as learning. There can be no authority where there is no power to enforce, and there can be no learning where there is no training. If there must be normal schools to qualify schoolmasters, there must be Oxfords and Cambridges to qualify clergymen. At least that's my idea. Well, if there is a qualified man, he must be supported while he is working. But if he has to please his earthly employer, instead of obeying his heavenly Master, the better he is qualified the more dangerous he is. If he relies on his congregation, the order of things is turned upside down. He ...
— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton
... one, however, ought to be among the witnesses who is in the testator's power, and if a son in power makes a will of military peculium after his discharge, neither his father nor any one in his father's power is qualified to be a witness; for it is not allowed to support a will by the evidence of persons in the same family with ...
— The Institutes of Justinian • Caesar Flavius Justinian


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