01 a. Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
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Answering to all requirements; adequate; sufficient; suitable; capable; legally qualified; fit.
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Rightfully or properly belonging; incident; -- followed by to.[Rare, except in legal usage.]“That is the privilege of the infinite Author of things, . . . but is not competent to any finite being.” — Locke.
Syn.
See Qualified.