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106 words match “ENABLE”

ENABLE v. 2 definitions

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [Obs.] "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.

The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability. Bacon.

Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another; as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.

AMENABLE a. 4 definitions

iable to be brought to account or punishment; answerable; responsible; accountable; as, amenable to law. Nor is man too diminutive . . . to be amenable to the divine government. I. Taylor.

AMENABLENESS n.

The quality or state of being amenable; liability to answer charges; answerableness.

CONVENABLE a. 2 definitions

Consistent; accordant; suitable; proper; as, convenable remedies. [Obs.] With his wod his work is convenable. Spenser.

Fit; proper; suitable. [Obs.] "A covenable day." Wyclif (Mark vi. 21).

To disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials (1640).

Impregnable. [Obs.]

Incapable of being alienated, surrendered, or transferred to another; not alienable; as, in inalienable birthright.

INALIENABLENESS n.

The quality or state of being inalienable; inalienability.

Incapable of being held; untenable; not defensible; as, an intenable opinion; an intenable fortress. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.

Reasonable; also, loquacious. [Obs.] "Most renable of tongue." Piers Plowman. -- Ren"a*bly, adv. [Obs.] Chaucer.

nded, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument. If you have hitherto concealed his sight, Let it be tenable in your silence still. Shak. I would be the last man in the world to give up his cause when it was tenable. Sir W. Scott.…

Same as Tenability.

Inalienable; as, unalienable rights. Swift. -- Un*al"ien*a*bly, adv.

Not covenable; inconvenient. [Obs.] Wyclif (1 Tim. iv. 7).

To make able; to enable; to strengthen. Chaucer.

An arrangement of lenses and mirrors which enables a person to see an object in spite of intervening objects.

The quality of being amenable; amenableness. Coleridge.