Qualify /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Qualified; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

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.