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▪ I. enabling, vbl. n.|ɛˈneɪblɪŋ|
[f. enable v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. enable.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 29 This..enabling of iudgment. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 348 To depend vpon God's inabling. 1658Whole Duty Man vii. §14 By doing those things, for the enabling of us whereunto it was given us. 1860Pusey Min. Proph. 413 The prophets..espying, by God's enabling, things beyond human ken. 1888Myers Chr. Living vii. 103 All God's commands are enablings.
▪ II. enabling, ppl. a.|ɛˈneɪblɪŋ|
[f. enable v. + -ing2.]
That enables: chiefly of legislative enactments. enabling statute: sometimes applied spec. to the act 32 Hen. VIII. c. 28, by which tenants-in-fee and certain other persons were ‘enabled’ to make leases. enabling act, a legislative enactment enabling or empowering a person or corporation to take certain action.
1677Feltham Resolves i. viii. 11 (ed. 10) It..wounds him, to the loss of inabling Blood. 1851Helps Comp. Solit. xii. (1874) 221 Enabling powers. 1856F. Pierce in Messages & Papers of Presidents (1896–9) V. 358 The States of California, Michigan and others were self-organized, and as such were admitted into the Union without a previous enabling act of Congress. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xix. 364 Let Congress pass an enabling act for that Territory. 1881Times 17 Jan. 13/4 Mr. Crump urged that the statute was ‘enabling’. 1884Pall Mall. G. 7 Nov. 1/1 The enabling bill..is only a draft measure. 1965Listener 20 May 745/1 This final power of approving or rejecting Assembly measures was reserved to Parliament in the Enabling Act of 1919. |