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.-to give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate.-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.-hence, to soften; to abate; to diminish; to assuage; to reduce the strength of, as liquors.-to soothe; to cure; -- said of persons.-to be or become qualified; to be fit, as for an office or employment.-to obtain legal power or capacity by taking the oath, or complying with the forms required, on assuming an office.