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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
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