EMPOWERED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does empowered mean? 

• EMPOWERED (adjective)
  The adjective EMPOWERED has 1 sense:

1. invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter

  Familiarity information: EMPOWERED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EMPOWERED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter

Synonyms:

empowered; sceptered; sceptred

Similar:

authorised; authorized (endowed with authority)

 Context examples 

Has she empowered you to accept my terms?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the kindness of Lord Godalming, I am empowered to read her letters and papers, for I am deeply concerned about certain matters vitally important.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In his hospitable Fazenda we spent our time until the day when we were empowered to open the letter of instructions given to us by Professor Challenger.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An officially chartered institution empowered to receive deposits, make loans, and provide checking and savings account services, all at a profit.

(Bank, NCI Thesaurus)

Mr Shepherd was completely empowered to act; and no sooner had such an end been reached, than Anne, who had been a most attentive listener to the whole, left the room, to seek the comfort of cool air for her flushed cheeks; and as she walked along a favourite grove, said, with a gentle sigh, A few months more, and he, perhaps, may be walking here.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

At length however she was empowered to disengage herself from her friend, by the avowed necessity of speaking to Miss Tilney, whom she most joyfully saw just entering the room with Mrs. Hughes, and whom she instantly joined, with a firmer determination to be acquainted, than she might have had courage to command, had she not been urged by the disappointment of the day before.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)