a. or ppl. a. Also 6–7 qualited. [f. QUALITY sb. or v. + -ED.] Furnished with a quality or qualities, in various senses of the sb. (Freq. in 17th c.; chiefly as predicate, and with qualifying adv.).
1600. Hakluyt, Voy., II. ii. 194. They were so well qualited in courage, experience, and discretion.
1616. T. Scott, Christs Politician, 11. Those men … are conditioned and qualited like sheepe, innocent, harmelesse, simple.
1656. Stanley, Hist. Philos., I. VIII. 112. In things properly qualited there is augmentation and diminution.
1728. Morgan, Algiers, II. iv. 286. The mildest, the best qualitied … Prince that ever existed.
1783. Johnson, in Boswell, 23 March. Lord Southwell was the highest-bred man … the most qualitied I ever saw.
1865. J. Grote, Moral Ideals (1876), 187. The mind is a qualitied unity.
1889. L. Wallace, in Harper’s Mag., Jan., 184/2. A dainty hand, and small,… and qualitied Divinely.
Hence Qualitiedness. rare–1.
1865. J. Grote, Explor. Philos., I. 110. Then finally form of the higher description, εῖδος, quality or qualitiedness, kind, true reality, is given by a higher self-consciousness, and there begin to be things.
