qualify
         v 1: prove capable or fit; meet requirements [syn: {qualify},
               {measure up}]
         2: pronounce fit or able; "She was qualified to run the
            marathon"; "They nurses were qualified to administer the
            injections" [ant: {disqualify}]
         3: make more specific; "qualify these remarks" [syn: {qualify},
            {restrict}]
         4: make fit or prepared; "Your education qualifies you for this
            job" [syn: {qualify}, {dispose}] [ant: {disqualify},
            {indispose}, {unfit}]
         5: specify as a condition or requirement in a contract or
            agreement; make an express demand or provision in an
            agreement; "The will stipulates that she can live in the
            house for the rest of her life"; "The contract stipulates the
            dates of the payments" [syn: {stipulate}, {qualify},
            {condition}, {specify}]
         6: describe or portray the character or the qualities or
            peculiarities of; "You can characterize his behavior as that
            of an egotist"; "This poem can be characterized as a lament
            for a dead lover" [syn: {qualify}, {characterize},
            {characterise}]
         7: add a modifier to a constituent [syn: {modify}, {qualify}]

English Dictionary: qualify	by the DICT Development Group
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Qualify \Qual"i*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Qualified}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Qualifying}.] [F. qualifier, LL. qualificare, fr. L.       qualis how constituted, as + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See       {Quality}, and {-Fy}.]       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.                                                                               --Macaulay.          2. To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to             regulate.                         It hath no larynx . . . to qualify the sound. --Sir                                                                               T. Browne.          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.         --Shak.          5. To soothe; to cure; -- said of persons. [Obs.]                         In short space he has them qualified. --Spenser.          Syn: To fit; equip; prepare; adapt; capacitate; enable;                modify; soften; restrict; restrain; temper.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Qualify \Qual"i*fy\, 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.