re-enablev.
/riːᵻnˈeɪbl/, /riːɛnˈeɪbl/, U.S. /ˌriᵻˈneɪb(ə)l/, /ˌriɛˈneɪb(ə)l/ 1. transitive. To make able to do something again.
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1519 Wigtown Burgh Court Rec. f. 98a James Edger is maid renabbillit to bruk his five ruyd of borow land.
1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (iii. 18) 1608 Thus are wee re-enabled to pay him the debt of Glory.
1724 Readings upon Statute Law III. 61 This Court was re-enabled to award Execution.
1769 C. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. ii. 117 They had refurnished the earl of Essex's foot with arms..; Sir William Waller they had re-enabled to take the field.
1834 S. Cooper Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 616 To require..many months, before the patient was re-enabled to take his station in society.
1983 M. L. Colish Mirror of Lang. (rev. ed.) Introd. 3 By his life, death, and resurrection, he had renewed and restored these human faculties, reenabling them to become Godlike.
2006 FD Wire (Nexis) 6 Dec. We've attempted over the last few years to really focus on a number of different common mechanisms to re-enable us to learn and progress and move our new targets.
2. transitive. To restore to former authority or status. Now rare.
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society > law > legal right > resumption or restoration of rights > restore to legal rights [verb (transitive)] > restore to a legal status
repone1574
rehabilitate1580
re-enable1611
retrocess1682
recapacitate1686
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xiv. 612/2 They were also forbidden..to reenable the late King against the authority of this Parliament.
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1958) IX. 177 When God hath thus created a new heart, that is, re-enabled me, by his Ordinance.
1755 Boyer's Royal Dict. (ed. 9) Rehabiliter, to re-habilitate, re-enable, re-instate, re-store, or re-establish.
1926 M. Jefferson Peopling Argentine Pampa iii. 68 Roca used his influence with the Congress, and an act was voted reënabling the city.
3. transitive. To make (esp. a device) operational or active once more; to restore operability to, to reactivate.
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1911 U.S. Patent 998,716 10/1 In an adding and listing machine,..means for reënabling said latter means at the conclusion of an operation of said section of wheels.
1929 U.S. Patent 1,702,023 10/2 Means to alternately release the work-holding mechanisms, advance the work, and re-enable the work-holders to grip the work.
1953 Jrnl. Relig. 33 292/2 Adam..squandered his free will; but grace..can re-enable that faculty.
1981 Electronics 10 Mar. 193/2 Before returning control to the CPU, it reinitializes the refresh-row counter to the desired value and reenables refresh.
1999 Target Sports Dec. 69/1 There is a small lever just in front of the guard and pressing it re-enables the safety catch.
2006 Fusion Engin. & Design 81 1925/2 When real-time control is no longer needed, the PCS uses the same custom kernel module to re-enable all of the interrupts it disabled.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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