transitive. With direct and indirect object. To permit or enable (a person) to have (something).

To impart to (a person or agent) power necessary or adequate for a given object; to make competent or capable. Const. for, to, unto. rare in…

transitive. To endow with ability or capacity; to capacitate, qualify. Obsolete.

transitive. To enable; to endow with ability or capacity; to make fit; = habilitate, v. 1. Cf. able, v.

transitive. With to (also for). To give (a person) the means, ability, or strength to do something; to enable. Also in extended use.

transitive. To endow with capacity for or to do (something); to render capable; to qualify, fit.

= capacitate, v.

transitive. ? To make ‘sufficient’ or competent.