'Enabling' definitions:

Definition of 'enabling'

From: WordNet
adjective
Providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling resolution"; "enabling power" [ant: disabling, disqualifying]

Definition of 'Enabling'

From: 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. --Addison. [1913 Webster]