enact
to make into an act or statute: Congress has enacted a new tax law.
to represent on or as on the stage; act the part of: to enact Hamlet.
Origin of enact
1Other words from enact
- en·act·a·ble, adjective
- en·ac·tor, noun
- pre·en·act, verb (used with object)
- re·en·act, verb (used with object)
- un·en·act·ed, adjective
- well-en·act·ed, adjective
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How to use enact in a sentence
Not only are there celebrity re-enactors, but watch sober and you might learn something.
‘Drunk History’: A Booze Cruise of Red, White, and Blood | Rich Goldstein | July 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe recklessness of the enactors of the New York tax law is visible in its blanket nature.
Exempting the Churches | James F. Morton. Jr.Do not the enactors enact it as the maximum of good, without which the citizens cannot live a regulated life?
He was forced to make embodied human beings its sole enactors.
Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism | Allen PutnamThe true origin and the actual authors and enactors of that tragedy are among the prime objects of our present researches.
Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism | Allen Putnam
But these last enactors were not to be trifled with; and the autumn saw accomplished what had not been effected in the spring.
Their Majesties' Servants (Volume 1 of 3) | John Doran
British Dictionary definitions for enact
/ (ɪnˈækt) /
to make into an act or statute
to establish by law; ordain or decree
to represent or perform in or as if in a play; to act out
Derived forms of enact
- enactable, adjective
- enactive or enactory, adjective
- enactment or enaction, noun
- enactor, noun
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