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/kwˈɑləfˌaɪɪŋ/ 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.

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"Qualifying" Quotes from Famous Books

... from all sects drew all the truth they could In charity; believing that when Christ Said of the pure in heart, 'They shall see God,' He meant it; spoke no fragment of a truth; Deferred no saying, qualifying that; Set no word-trap for unsuspecting souls; Spoke no oracular, ambiguous phrase, Intending merely the vicarious pure; Reserved no strange or mystical condition To breed fine points of doctrine, or confound The simple-minded and the slow of faith. Heart-purity and singleness ...

— The Woman Who Dared • Epes Sargent

... the largest women's organizations in New Zealand who gave evidence before the Committee advocated the introduction of legislation permitting abortion under certain circumstances after a woman had had two children, subsequently qualifying the suggestion by the words "if ...

— Report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Various Aspects of the Problem of Abortion in New Zealand • David G. McMillan

... of all fruits. The natives of the West Indies were no less averse to salt; and who would believe that hops should ever have a place in our common beverage [57], and that we should ever think of qualifying the sweetness of malt, through good housewifry, by mixing with it a substance so egregiously bitter? Most of the American fruits are exceedingly odoriferous, and therefore are very disgusting at first to us Europeans: on the contrary, our fruits ...

— The Forme of Cury • Samuel Pegge

... written in Greek and were written in the first century A.C., the vital question is what the word stauros then meant, when used, as in the New Testament, without any qualifying expression or hint that other than an ordinary stauros was signified. What the Fathers chose to consider the meaning of that word to be, or chose to give as its Latin translation, would, even if they had written the same century, in no wise affect that ...

— The Non-Christian Cross - An Enquiry Into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion • John Denham Parsons

... forwarded from the principal cities in the Union to every part of the country;" and "justice requires that the expense of their transportation should be paid by the postage." I would add to this the qualifying phrase, "or by the government, out of the public treasury," and then ask why the same principle of justice is not as applicable to long mail routes as to heavy mail bags. There is and can be no ground of apprehension, that mails ...

— Cheap Postage • Joshua Leavitt

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