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Competent   /kˈɑmpətɪnt/   Listen
Competent

adjective
1.
Properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient.
2.
Adequate for the purpose.
3.
Legally qualified or sufficient.  "Competent testimony"





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"Competent" Quotes from Famous Books



... observing that I believe myself at present competent to edit any book in Mandchou, if that be what is wanted, and beg leave to remain, dear Sir, ...
— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow
... answered Lady Isabel, in perhaps the most displeased tone she had ever used to Miss Carlyle. "I am a competent judge of what is necessary ...
— East Lynne • Mrs. Henry Wood
... "is amiable, though unfortunate. But your merit is too great not to deserve to be informed. Knowledge, my lovely maiden, is always regarded as a desirable acquisition by the prudent and the judicious. To what purpose was a mind so capacious, competent to the greatest improvements, and formed to comprehend subjects of the most extensive compass, or the sublimest reach, bestowed upon us, if it be not employed in the pursuits of science and experience? ...
— Imogen - A Pastoral Romance • William Godwin
... simple and easy reasonings by means of which geometers are accustomed to reach the conclusions of their most difficult demonstrations, had led me to imagine that all things to the knowledge of which man is competent are mutually connected in the same way, and that there is nothing so far removed from us as to be beyond our reach, or so hidden that we cannot discover it, provided only we abstain from accepting the false for the true, and always preserve in our thoughts ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern -- Volume 11 • Various
... influence upon the literature of the day as Potgieter and Bakhuizen did forty years before. The columns of the Nieuwe Gids were only opened to the very best of Dutch authors, and any works not coming up to the editors' high ideas of literary excellence were unmercifully 'slated' by these competent critics. Independence was the prominent characteristic of the authors of the period. They shook themselves free from the old thoughts and similes, and created new paths, in which their minds found freer expression. The new thoughts demanded new words, hence came about the practice of word-combination, ...
— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough


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