empower Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb give or delegate power or authority to
    authorize; authorise.
    • She authorized her assistant to sign the papers
  2. verb give qualities or abilities to
    endue; gift; invest; indue; endow.

WordNet

Em*pow"er transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Empowered ; present participle & verbal noun Empowering
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913