Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Enable

Enable , transitive verb

1.
To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [Obsolete]
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