enable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb 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

WordNet

En*a"ble transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Enabled ; present participle & verbal noun Enabling
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913