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† habille, v. Obs.
Forms: 5 habyle, -ylle, abele, 5–6 habyll, 5–7 habille.
[a. F. habiller, abillier (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), to fit, fit out, put in order, dress, clothe, repr. a late L. type *habiliāre, f. habilis (see habile and able); in later use associated with habit clothing. Cf. also able v. 1, 2, and the Sc. form abuilyiet.]
1. trans. To fit, adapt; = able v. 1.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas iii. xiii. 86 They ought of reason them self to habyle To haue science of Philosophie.
2. To fit out; to accoutre, array, attire, esp. for war; to apparel, dress; = able v. 2.
a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 141 She went into her chaumbre and abeled her self. 1481Caxton Godfrey i. 19 He dyde do make agayn the chirches, and habylled the holy places. 1489― Faytes of A. i. vii. 17 Be he habylled rychely in harnoys and mountures. 1491― Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) i. li. 108 a/2 The holy man Abraham thus habilled and arayed..lepe up on an horse. Ibid. 111 To habylle and put theim in armes. 1652F. Kirkman Clerio & Lozia 128 He stayed there so long till Lozia was habilled.
3. To make or pronounce competent, to enable, qualify; = able v. 4 b.
1530Palsgr. 576/2, I habyll, as a man to do a thyng, I make him able, or thynke him suffycient..I was habylled to handell this mater by better men than you be. |