empowered

someone legally empowered to witness signatures and certify a document's validity and to take depositions

Oppressed white guys also think that Feminism is a threat to their masculinity.\r \r They don't realize that white men have not been disempowered by society at large, and pretend that they're under attack. > "So what if by using the word 'nigger' black people are reclaiming the term? I'm being oppressed because I can't use it!" > "I don't realize that freedom of speech is simply a legal distinction, so I should be allowed to say Nigger without anyone getting mad!" > "Boo-hoo, I'm a white male

The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another

when veggies and fruits, so innocent and un-empowered, are plucked out by the roots, to be greedily devoured > How many victims have died from vicious vegan vegicide?!