单词 | habilitation |
释义 | habilitationn. a. The action of enabling or endowing with ability or fitness; capacitation, qualification. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > rendering capable enablinga1586 enablement1605 habilitation1625 abilitation1647 capacitatinga1652 potentiation1818 capacitation1839 potentiating1963 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 178 The Things, which we formerly haue spoken of, are but Habilitations towards Armes: And what is Habilitation without Intention and Act? 1713 Treaty w. Spain in C. King Brit. Merch. (1721) III. 169 All Augmentations of Duties which were introduced in the said Ports..on occasion of the War, or under the Title of Habilitation, or any other whatsoever, ceasing and being taken away. 1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 617 The habilitation of new maritime ports for expediting the intercourse with America. 1861 A. McCaul in W. Thomson Aids to Faith iii. 88 He..had no permanent habilitation to declare the will of God. 1868 M. Pattison Suggestions Acad. Organisation v. 213 I propose that the honour-degrees (M.A., etc.) should of themselves form the habilitation for the office of tutor. Categories » b. The advancing of money on the security of a mine, to enable the owner to work it. (U.S., from Spanish habilitacion.) This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1625 |
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