ENACTED

Verb

enacted

simple past tense and past participle of enact

Source: Wiktionary


ENACT

En*act", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enacted; p. pr. & vb. n. 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. Shak.

3. To act the part of; to represent; to play. I did enact Julius Caesar. Shak. Enacting clause, that clause of a bill which formally expresses the legislative sanction.

En*act", n.

Definition: Purpose; determination. [Obs.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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