From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Enable \En*a"ble\, verb (used with an object) [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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