单词 | enabling |
释义 | enablingn. The action of enable v. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > ability > [noun] > rendering capable enablinga1586 enablement1605 habilitation1625 abilitation1647 capacitatinga1652 potentiation1818 capacitation1839 potentiating1963 society > authority > delegated authority > investing with delegated authority > [noun] authorizing?a1425 authorization1472 enablinga1586 commissioning1622 commissionating1645 empowerment1651 commission1883 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C4v This..enabling of iudgment. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 348 To depend vpon God's inabling. 1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man vii. §14. 166 By doing those things for the enabling of us whereunto it was given us. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 413 The prophets..espying, by God's enabling, things beyond human ken. 1888 F. B. Meyer Christian Living vii. 103 All God's commands are enablings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2018). enablingadj. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily strength > strengthening > [adjective] strengthening1571 roborating1615 enabling1628 strengthing1672 steeling1849 fortifying1863 society > law > legislation > [adjective] > granting permission by legislation enabling1851 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. viii. sig. Iv It..wounds him, to the losse of inabling blood. 1851 A. Helps Compan. Solitude xii. 245 I delight in education..because of its enabling powers. 1856 F. 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. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undeveloped West xix. 364 Let Congress pass an enabling act for that Territory. 1881 Times 17 Jan. 13/4 Mr. Crump urged that the statute was ‘enabling’. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 Nov. 1/1 The enabling bill..is only a draft measure. 1919 Public Gen. Acts Index 609 Enabling Bill, The. See Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act (c. 76). 1965 Listener 20 May 745/1 This final power of approving or rejecting Assembly measures was reserved to Parliament in the Enabling Act of 1919. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2020). < n.a1586adj.1628 |
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