Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Rehabilitate

Rehabilitate (r?`h?*b?l"?*t?t) , transitive verb

[Prefix re- re- + habilitate: compare Late Latin rehabilitare, French réhabiliter.]

To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law.
Restoring and rehabilitating the party. — Burke