enact
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English enacten, from en-, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French en- (“to cause to be”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin in- (“in”) and (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French acte (“perform, do”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin actum, past participle of ago (“set in motion”)
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Verb
enact (third-person singular simple present enacts, present participle enacting, simple past and past participle enacted)
- (transitive, law) to make (a bill) into law
- (transitive) to act the part of; to play
- Shakespeare
- I did enact Julius Caesar.
- Shakespeare
- (transitive) to do; to effect
- Shakespeare
- The king enacts more wonders than a man.
- Shakespeare
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Noun
enact
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enact”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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