requalifyv.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. f. 365 ^v/2 The Pope to requalifie againe ech part with some retribution for their money receaued, tooke this order indifferently betwene them.

1691 Blatant Beast Muzzled 49 The stickling of all his best Friends, in a late House of Commons, could not, (even in that most favourable juncture) procure him to be unstigmatiz'd and re-qualify'd for a Witness.

1770 Crit. Rev. Feb. 140 The law which disqualified him, would have re-qualified him, if we may use that expression.

1775 London Mag. May 204/2 Lay aside for the present the customary freeholders, of which two were requalified as freeholders.

1836 Metropolitan June 195 The black blood, then, having been..requalified to fulfil its appointed offices in the body, is collected into four veins.

1874 Times 11 Mar. 5/6 It is much to be regretted that some organized system of requalifying men after paying off..does not exist.

1933 Times 17 Aug. 4/7 Reinstatement would not requalify any of the team for the Olympic Games.

1973 Past & Present 61 91 Through their mediation the Court faction was able to penetrate the parish assemblies and requalify a markedly higher percentage of contested votes than the opposition who had singularly few contacts on the vestry floor.

1989 B. Roshier Controlling Crime (BNC) 12 The reforming jurists..saw punishment as a procedure for requalifying individuals as subjects, as juridical subjects.

1769 Serious Considerations Late Decision House of Commons 24 Mr Wollaston, though he was very properly removed out of the House of Commons, as being disabled by Law to sit, whilst he continued a Receiver of the Duties, having resigned, thereby re-qualified himself again to be elected.

1814 J. West Alicia de Lacy II. 306 He must do his duty,..requalify himself for the calls of his high station.

2004 Europe-Asia Stud. 56 239 The latter often requalified themselves into speech writers or press secretaries for the leader.