Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete form of enable.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb See enable.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To enable.
  • adjective obsolete Unable, not able.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

in- (“not”) +‎ able

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

in +‎ able

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