Verb

(enabling) (enabl)

To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

* 1611 , King James Bible , "1 Tim. i. 12"

Who hath enabled me.

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.

* 1711 , October 13, (Joseph Addison), (The Spectator) , number 195

Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

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To allow a way out or excuse for an action.

Verb

(includ)

To bring into a group, class, set, or total as a (new) part or member.

I will purchase the vacation package if you will include car rental.

To contain, as parts of a whole; to comprehend.

The vacation package includes car rental.

Does this volume of Shakespeare include his sonnets?

I was included in the invitation to the family gathering.

up to and including page twenty-five

* Milton

The whole included race, his purposed prey.

* Shakespeare

The loss of such a lord includes all harm.

(obsolete) To enclose, confine.

*, New York, 2001, p.107:

I could have here willingly ranged, but these straits wherein I am included will not permit.

(obsolete) To conclude; to terminate.

* Shakespeare

Come, let us go; we will include all jars / With triumphs, mirth, and rare solemnity.