enableverb/ɪˈneɪ.bəl/

• 1

  To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.

  • And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry; who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.
• 2

  To affirm; to make firm and strong.

• 3

  To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.

  • This was widely interpreted to mean that slavery was once more firmly illegal in England. However, the "positive law" mentioned–i.e., a direct law specifically enabling slavery–existed in many British colonies (although not all), since these colonies had a degree of freedom to write their own law apart from that of the home country.
• 4

  To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.

  • Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
  • April 16, 2018, Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan writing in The New York Times, ‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption
• 5

  To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.

  • His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.
• 6

  businesselectrical-engineeringelectricityTo put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.

• 7

  businesscomputingelectrical-engineeringTo activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).