Enabled

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Enable \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.
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              Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles,
              when he enabled them with priestly power. --Jer.
                                                    Taylor.
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     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.
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              Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables
              her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
                                                    --Addison.
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