qualificatory (kwolifikatori)

[ Some teachers urge that we should have no examinations at all,.. others that examinations should be solely qualificatory . The Academy , Oct. 12, 1889, p. 233. qualified (kwol'i-fid), p. a. 1. Having a qualification; fitted by accomplishments or endowments; furnished with legal power or capacity: as, a person qualified to hold an appointment; a qualified elector. Well qualified and dutiful I know him; I took him not for beauty. Beau. and Fl., Phil aster, iii. 2. He only who is able to stand alone is qualified for society. Emerson, Fugitive Slave Law. 2. Affected by some degree of negation, limitation, or modification; modified; limited; restricted: as, a qualified statement; qualified admiration. The Quaker's loyalty, said the Earl of Errol at Aberdeen, is a qualified loyalty; it smells of rebellion. Bancroft, Hist. U. S., II. 349. 3. Eccles ., noting a person enabled to hold two tion; fitne . change or modification; specifically, adapt a benefices. Estate of inheritance qualified. See es Neither had the waters of the flood infused such an impurity as thereby the natural and powerful operation of all plants, herbs, and fruits upon the earth received a qualification and harmful change. Raleigh , Hist. World. 2. A quality adapting a person or thing to particular circumstances, uses, or ends. The qualifications which conduce most to the fixity of a portion of matter seem to be these. Boyle , Experimental Notes, i. Strength, agility, and courage would in such a state be the most valuable qualifications . Mandeville, Fable of the Bees, Dialogue vi. 3. That which qualifies a person for or renders him admi ible to or acceptable for a place, an office, or an employment; any natural or acquired quality, property, or po e ion which secures a right to exercise any function, privias, the qualifications of an elector. Quakerish governe . Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre,