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Able
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech.
(2):
(superl.) Fit; adapted; suitable.
(3):
(superl.) Having sufficient power, strength, force, skill, means, or resources of any kind to accomplish the object; possessed of qualifications rendering competent for some end; competent; qualified; capable; as, an able workman, soldier, seaman, a man able to work; a mind able to reason; a person able to be generous; able to endure pain; able to play on a piano.
(4):
(superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property.
(5):
(a.) To make able; to enable; to strengthen.
(6):
(a.) To vouch for.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Able'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/a/able.html. 1828.
