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Enact   /ɪnˈækt/   Listen
verb
Enact  v. t.  (past & past part. enacted; pres. part. enacting)  
1.
To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law.
2.
To act; to perform; to do; to effect. (Obs.) "The king enacts more wonders than a man."
3.
To act the part of; to represent; to play. "I did enact Julius Caesar."
Enacting clause, that clause of a bill which formally expresses the legislative sanction.


noun
Enact  n.  Purpose; determination. (Obs.)





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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... statement of actual fact in the author's time. Since then the long continuance of settled government, by fostering the growth of private rights, has tended to obscure the idea of state ownership. The modern revenue codes, instead of postulating the ownership of the state, enact that the claims of the state—that is to say, the land-revenue- -are the first charge on the land and its produce. The Malabar coast offers an exception to the general Hindu role of state ownership of land. The Nairs, Coorgs, and Tulus enjoyed full proprietary rights (Dubois, ...
— Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official • William Sleeman
... urchins as they waged their mimic fight with wooden guns and wooden swords; but, while we looked on, one boy of an inventive turn of mind was possessed of a great idea. He proceeded to organize an execution against a handy wall, with one small person to enact the role of the condemned culprit and half a dozen others to make up the ...
— Paths of Glory - Impressions of War Written At and Near the Front • Irvin S. Cobb
... broad rim of my soft beaver hat over her face, and turned up the collar of my cloak. Then she adjusted about her chin and upper lip a black chin beard and moustachio, which she had in some manner contrived to make, and, in short, prepared to enact the role of Malcolm Vernon before her watchful gaoler, ...
— Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall • Charles Major
... not violate the unity of the Church. And in the Tripartite History, Book 9, many examples of dissimilar rites are gathered, and the following statement is made: It was not the mind of the Apostles to enact rules concerning holy-days, but to preach godliness and a holy life [, ...
— The Confession of Faith • Various
... law, the convention should have been perpetual and never dissolved, in order that the law might have been subject to requisite modifications without a change of circumstances. A strange manner in which to enact such a law! But things have changed since the Chicago Convention. In fifty days, fifty years of history have transpired. This is enough to release us from the obligation, if any existed. It is not a law; it is a doctrine, ...
— A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the Conference Convention • Lucius Eugene Chittenden


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