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

(subscrib)

(ergative) To sign up to have copies of a publication, such as a newspaper or a magazine, delivered for a period of time.

Would you like to subscribe''' or '''subscribe a friend to our new magazine, Lexicography Illustrated?

To pay for the provision of a service, such as Internet access or a cell phone plan.

To believe or agree with a theory or an idea.

I don’t subscribe to that theory.

To pay money to be a member of an organization.

To contribute or promise to contribute money to a common fund.

1913:' Theodore Roosevelt, ''Autobiography'' — under no circumstances could I ever again be nominated for any public office, as no corporation would '''subscribe''' to a campaign fund if I was on the ticket, and that they would ' subscribe most heavily to beat me;

To promise to give, by writing one's name with the amount.

Each man subscribed ten dollars.

(business, and, finance) To agree to buy shares in a company.

1776:' Adam Smith, ''The Wealth of Nations'' — The capital which had been ' subscribed to this bank, at two different subscriptions, amounted to one hundred and sixty thousand pounds, of which eighty per cent only was paid up.

To sign; to mark with one's signature as a token of consent or attestation.

Parties subscribe''' a covenant or contract; a man '''subscribes a bond.

Officers subscribe''' their official acts, and secretaries and clerks '''subscribe copies or records.

* Milman

All the bishops subscribed the sentence.

(archaic) To write (one’s name) at the bottom of a document; to sign (one's name).

* Sir Thomas More

[They] subscribed their names under them.

(obsolete) To sign away; to yield; to surrender.

(Shakespeare)

(obsolete) To yield; to admit to being inferior or in the wrong.

(obsolete) To declare over one's signature; to publish.

* Shakespeare

I will subscribe him a coward.