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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

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

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

For its maintenance and actuation were not limited to the person of a Pope, who could only be the representative, the bearer, the enactor, for the world of this idea in its fullest meaning.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by Allies, T. W. (Thomas William)