About The Word Enable
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What's The Definition Of 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Enable: Related Terms | Find terms related to Enable: accredit | adapt | adjust | agree to | aid | allow | approve | arm | assent to | assign | assist | attune | authorize | capacitate | certificate | certify | charter | clothe | clothe with power | commission | condition | delegate | depute | deputize | empower | endow | endue | enfranchise | entitle | entrust | equip | expedite | facilitate | fit | franchise | furnish | give official sanction | give power | go along with | help | invest | legalize | legitimize | let | license | make possible | OK | okay | patent | permit | prepare | privilege | put in trim | put in tune | qualify | ratify | ready | sanction | suit | tune | validate | warrant See Also | alter | change | empower | endow | endue | equip | gift | indue | invest Enable In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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