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Definition of Enable

1. Verb. Render capable or able for some task. "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain"

Definition of Enable

1. v. t. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

Definition of Enable

1. Verb. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. ¹

2. Verb. 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. ¹

3. Verb. To allow a way out or excuse for an action. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Enable

1. to make possible [v -BLED, -BLING, -BLES] - See also: possible

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enable

Literary usage of Enable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1866)
"... and making use of nearly all their additions, have produced a work, the distinctive features of which enable them to set it forth, not merely as ..."

2. Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Felix Octavius Carr Darley (1886)
"... should be" carefully regarded; a little practice will enable one to acquire that habit of reading the hexameter, which we may liken, roughly, ..."

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