habilitation

noun4

1. •
   Equipment; qualification.

   • For the things which we formerly have spoken of, are but habilitation arms: and what is habilitation without intention and act? — 1625
2. •
   An academic qualification, prerequiring a PhD, required in order to gain tenure as a professor in some European universities; a thesis or dissertation presented to achieve the qualification.
3. •
   An act of habilitating.
4. •
   (US) The act of supplying money to work a mine.