Qualification
Qualification
#469. Qualification. -- N. qualification, limitation, modification,
coloring.
- allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating
circumstances; mitigation.
- condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision,
specification, sine qua non[Lat]; catch, string, strings attached;
exemption; exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause; discount &c.
813; restriction; fine print.
- V. qualify, limit, modify, leaven, give a color to, introduce new
conditions, narrow, temper.
- waffle, quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain) 475; equivocate
(sophistry) 477.
- depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect) 154.
- allow for, make allowance for; admit exceptions, take into account;
modulate.
- moderate, temper, season, leaven.
- take exception.
- Adj. qualifying &c. v.; qualified, conditioned, restricted, hedged;
conditional; exceptional &c. (unconformable) 83.
- hypothetical &c. (supposed) 514; contingent &c. (uncertain) 475.
- Adv. provided, provided that, provided always; if, unless, but, yet;
according as; conditionally, admitting, supposing; on the supposition of
&c. (theoretically) 514; with the understanding, even, although, though,
for all that, after all, at all events.
- approximately &c. 197, 17; in a limited degree (smallness) 32;
somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree,
in a sense, so to speak.
- with grains of allowance, cum grano salis[Latin: with a grain of
salt]; exceptis excipiendis[Lat]; wind and weather permitting; if possible
&c. 470.
- subject to, conditioned upon; with this proviso &c. n.
- Phr. "if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't rise"; catch-
22.