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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
enable
v : render capable or able for some task; "This skill will
enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope
enables you to secure yourself when you climb the
mountain" [ant: {disable}]
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