Definitions for: Empower

[v] give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers"
[v] give qualities or abilities to

Webster (1913) Definition: Em*pow"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empowered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Empowering.]
1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission;
to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the
Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil
or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an
acquittance, and discharge the debtor.

2. To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities
to. ``These eyes . . . empowered to gaze.'' --Keble.

Synonyms: authorise, authorize, endow, endue, gift, indue, invest

See Also: appoint, charge, cover, enable, entitle, sanction

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