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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
ENA'BLING, ppr. Giving power to; supplying with sufficient power, ability or means; authorizing.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
adj
1: providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling resolution"; "enabling power" [ant: disabling, disqualifying]
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Enable En*a"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enabled; p. pr. & vb. n. Enabling.] 1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [Obs.] ``Who hath enabled me.'' --1 Tim. i. 12. Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow. Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. --Addison.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
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