Part 3737

<h1>Enable</h1> <Xpage=487>

<hw>En*a"ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Enabled</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Enabling</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Who hath <i>enabled</i> me."

<i>1 Tim. i. 12.</i>

<blockquote>Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he <b>enabled</b> them with priestly power. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>Temperance gives Nature her full play, and <b>enables</b> her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Enablement</h1> <Xpage=487>

<hw>En*a"ble*ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability.</def>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Enact</h1> <Xpage=487>

<hw>En*act"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Enacted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Enacting</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To act; to perform; to do; to effect.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>The king <b>enacts</b> more wonders than a man. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To act the part of; to represent; to play.</def>

<blockquote>I did <b>enact</b> Julius Caesar. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Enacting clause</col>, <cd>that clause of a bill which formally expresses the legislative sanction.</cd></cs>

<h1>Enact</h1> <Xpage=487>

<hw>En*act"</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Purpose; determination.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Enactive</h1> <Xpage=487>

<hw>En*act"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having power to enact or establish as a law.</def>

<i>Abp. Bramhall.</i>

<h1>Enactment</h1> <Xpage=487>

<hw>En*act"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; <as>as, a prohibitory <ex>enactment</ex>; a social <ex>enactment</ex>.</as></def>

<h1>Enactor</h1> <Xpage=487>

<hw>En*act"or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.</def>