empowered

(verb) give or delegate power or authority to. Synonyms: empower, authorise, authorize. Example: "She authorized her assistant to sign the papers."

(verb) give qualities or abilities to. Synonyms: endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue.

(adj) invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter. Synonyms: sceptered, sceptred.