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.
To act; to perform; to do; to effect. [Obs.] The king enacts more wonders than a man. Shak.
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.
Purpose; determination. [Obs.]
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