commission vs enable

commission

verb
  • To put into active service. 

  • To send or officially charge someone or some group to do something. 

  • To place an order for (often a piece of art). 

noun
  • A fee charged by an agent or broker for carrying out a transaction. 

  • The thing to be done as agent for another. 

  • The act of committing (e.g. a crime or error). 

  • A sending or mission (to do or accomplish something). 

  • An official charge or authority to do something, often used of military officers. 

  • A body or group of people, officially tasked with carrying out a particular function. 

enable

verb
  • To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device). 

  • To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for. 

  • To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like. 

  • To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior. 

  • To affirm; to make firm and strong. 

  • To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse. 

  • To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to. 

How often have the words commission and enable occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )