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Enact


ENACT', verb transitive [en and act.] To make, as a law; to pass, as a bill into a law; to perform the last act of a legislature to a bill, giving it validity as a law; to give legislative sanction to a bill.

Shall this bill pass to be enacted?

1. To decree; to establish as the will of the supreme power.

2. To act; to perform; to effect. [Not used.]

3. To represent inaction. [Not used.]