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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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... with a suppressed smile upon her lips, as though she saw through the man, and was determined to be his match; but Nyleptha grew very angry, her cheek flushed, her eyes flashed, and she did indeed look lovely. Finally she turned to Agon and seemed to give some sort of qualified assent, for he bowed at her words; and as she spoke she moved her hands as though to emphasize what she said; while all the time Sorais kept her chin on her hand and smiled. Then suddenly Nyleptha made a sign, the trumpets blew again, and everybody rose to leave the hall save ourselves and the guards, ...
— Allan Quatermain • by H. Rider Haggard
... own ideal of a rural population, an ideal obviously based on free labor and free institutions. "You make a settler on the domain," said he, "a better citizen of the community. He becomes better qualified to discharge the duties of a freeman. He is, in fact, the representative of his own homestead, and is a man in the enlarged and proper sense of the term. He comes to the ballot-box and votes without the fear or the restraint of some landlord. After the hurry and bustle of election day ...
— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine
... my lord: I allow The heir of Sir Giles Overreach, Margaret, A maid well qualified, and the richest match Our north part can boast of; yet she cannot, With all she brings with her fill their mouths, That never will forget who was her father; Or that my husband Allworth's lands, and Wellborn's, (How wrung from both ...
— The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810 • Various
... their foreman to the last cent. A judge was suggested, but declined as being of the locality. Finally the giant sheepman, despite his personal wager, was elected unanimously. He was known to be a man of absolute fairness, and qualified to judge marksmanship. He agreed to serve, with the proviso that the Starr boys or any of High Chin's friends should feel free to question his decisions. The crowd solidified back of the line, where Shoop and High Chin stood ...
— Jim Waring of Sonora-Town - Tang of Life • Knibbs, Henry Herbert
... that the collectors of encomiendas be persons approved by the archbishop as protector of the Indians, and appointed by the governor. Your Majesty should order them very straitly to seek and appoint the men best qualified as collectors. If, on the one hand, such men are appointed, and, on the other, are registered and approved by the archbishop, a great and special blessing and the remedy of great wrongs, thefts, and offenses against our Lord ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume X, 1597-1599 • E. H. Blair


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