Empowered

4 definitions found

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

  empowered \empowered\ adj.
     1. invested with legal power or official authority especially
        as symbolized by having a scepter.
  
     Syn: sceptered, sceptred.
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. enabled or permitted; as, the women's liberation movement
        empowered wives to take more control of their own lives.
        [PJC]

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

  Empower \Em*pow"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Empowered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Empowering}.]
     1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission;
        to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the
        Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil
        or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an
        acquittance, and discharge the debtor.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities
        to. "These eyes . . . empowered to gaze." --Keble.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. to enable or permit; to give more opportunity for
        independent action.
        [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  empowered
       adj : invested with legal power or official authority especially
             as symbolized by having a scepter [syn: {sceptered}, {sceptred}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  51 Moby Thesaurus words for "empowered":
     absolute, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized,
     autocratic, chartered, clothed with authority, commanding,
     competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, dominant,
     duly constituted, eminent, enfranchised, entitled, ex officio,
     franchised, governing, great, hegemonic, hegemonistic, imperative,
     important, influential, leading, licensed, mighty, momentous,
     monocratic, official, patented, potent, powerful, preeminent,
     prestigious, privileged, prominent, puissant, ranking, ruling,
     sanctioned, senior, substantial, superior, supreme, totalitarian,
     warranted, weighty