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It’s an effort to remind jurors that he is a person, not merely the enactor of these crimes.

From Slate • Apr. 27, 2015

Could Ann Foster’s gray-haired man have been Tituba’s white-haired visitant—the originator and enactor of Salem witchcraft?

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

Then she promptly mentioned an apparition not only visible, but audible, who, if carefully scanned, may prove to have been chief author and enactor of Salem witchcraft.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

The world progresses; new clairvoyance has been developed—clairvoyance which sees what never existed—to wit, little John Stiles as the designing and conscious enactor of superhuman works.

From Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Putnam, Allen

Physical science discovered the vast domain of physical law, and that science began to legislate for the universe, forgetting sometimes that it was not a law enactor, but a law discoverer.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)