HABILITATION

Etymology

Noun

habilitation (countable and uncountable, plural habilitations)

Equipment; qualification.

An act of habilitating.

An academic qualification, prerequiring a PhD, required in order to gain tenure as a professor in some European universities; a thesis or dissertation presented to achieve the qualification.

(US) The act of supplying money to work a mine.

Source: Wiktionary


Ha*bil"i*ta"tion, n. Etym: [LL. habilitatio: cf. F. habilitation.]

Definition: Equipment; qualification. [Obs.] Bacon.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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