Complete Definition of "enact"

English

Etymology
From one meaning of Middle English and Old French en-, to cause to be (from Latin in-, in) and acte, to perform; to do (from the Latin past participle of agere, to do; to drive)

Transitive verb
to enact (enacts, enacted, enacting)

  1. law to make (a bill) into law
  2. to act the part of; to play
  3. obsolete to do; to effect

Translations
trans-top|to make (a bill) into law
Finnish: säätää laki, hyväksyä laki
trans-mid
trans-bottom

trans-top|to act the part of; to play
Finnish: näytellä, esittää
trans-mid
trans-bottom

trans-top|to do; to affect
trans-mid
trans-bottom

Derived terms
enactable
enactability
enactably
enactor

Related terms
act

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