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.]
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