n. (Print.) Half an em, that is, half of the unit of space in measuring printed matter. See Em. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. [ F. en-, L. in. ] A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A prefix from Gr. &unr_; in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology. See In-. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enabled p. pr. & vb. n. Enabling ] 1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [ Obs. ] “Who hath enabled me.” 1 Tim. i. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Enacting. ] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To act; to perform; to do; to effect. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The king enacts more wonders than a man. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To act the part of; to represent; to play. [ 1913 Webster ]

I did enact Julius Caesar. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enacting clause, that clause of a bill which formally expresses the legislative sanction. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Purpose; determination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having power to enact or establish as a law. Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Enactment; resolution. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]