Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Enable \En*a"ble\, 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.

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

   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.

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

Source : WordNet®

enabling
     adj : providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling resolution";
           "enabling power" [ant: {disabling}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

enabling
     
        {software enabling}