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Enabled

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. 1

  2. 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.

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enabled
  1. Being capable for use or action. v

  2. (en-past of: enable)

Usage examples of "enabled".

It is by method and classification that we are enabled to apply our knowledge to practical purposes.

We are enabled to adapt remedies to constitutions and their varying conditions, with a fidelity and scientific precision which has rendered our success in treatment widely known and generally acknowledged.

In giving to the people wholesome advice, by which they may be enabled to ward off disease and thus preserve the health of multitudes, we believe we shall receive their hearty approval, as well as the approbation of our own conscience, both of which are certainly munificent rewards.

Through the agency of these means we have been enabled to cure hundreds, who had suffered untold tortures for twelve, fifteen, or twenty-five years.

I was enabled to leave at the end of one month, having experienced great benefit.

Since we are able to diagnosticate with the utmost precision the various affections of the heart, and since the discovery of certain specific medicines which exert most beneficial effects, we are enabled to treat this class of maladies with the most gratifying results.

It has enabled me to pursue my work steadily ever since, and I am more than happy to testify to the excellent skill and honorable dealings of your faculty and the fine appointments of your Institution.

The disease is readily diagnosticated, or determined, by chemical examination of the urine, so that we have been enabled to treat this class of cases very successfully at a distance, and without personal examinations.

Having specialists who devote their entire time to the study and cure of these diseases, we are thereby enabled to attain the highest degree of skill in the management of these cases.

By means of this ability to relieve any part of the system from engorgement, and consequent inflammation and its results, are we enabled to permanently cure a large variety of chronic inflammatory, ulcerative, and nervous affections.

The specialist, on the contrary, by confining his studies and researches to one class of diseases only, is enabled to inform himself thoroughly and accurately on all the improvements made in the methods and means of practice in his special department.

By the adoption of these various means, we are enabled to fully meet the demands of the afflicted, and give every case the most careful attention.

By the art of the engraver this may be faithfully traced, and thus we are enabled to produce an accurate representation of them.

This large measure of success is the result of a thorough and careful preparation for his calling, and extensive reading during a long and unusually large practice, which has enabled him to gain high commendation, even from his professional brethren.

In the course of this session, a bill for securing to authors, in certain cases, the benefit of international copyright passed the legislature, and which enabled her majesty in council to direct that the authors of books published abroad shall have a copyright here, provided there be a reciprocal protection in favour of this country in the state in which such publications first make their appearance.