Definition of enact in English:

enact

verb ɪˈnaktɛˈnakt

[with object]

1Make (a bill or other proposal) law.
使（法案或其他议案）成为法律；制订（法律）；通过（法案等）；颁布（法令等）
legislation was enacted to attract international companies
1987年制订了吸引国际性公司的法律。
Example sentencesExamples
- We should remember that no other group of citizens is consulted before measures are enacted to prevent illegal activity.
- They serve to impose what could never be legislatively enacted.
- The statute was enacted pursuant to Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce.
- Congress recently enacted sweeping anti-terrorism legislation which expanded law enforcement powers, and outlawed biological materials.
- Statutory rape laws were first enacted to protect minors from older predators.
- Remember, there has been no significant piece of reformist legislation enacted into law for nearly 30 years.
- Accordingly, she filed suit in federal court under the newly enacted Violence Against Women Act.
- After Virginia legislators enacted that colony's first comprehensive slave code in 1705, internal rather than outside influences predominated.
- In the United States, several states have already enacted genetic privacy laws.
- Hunted for its pelt, the lynx declined until protective legislation was enacted in the 1970s.
- Rather, Parliament was enacting legislation in which a number of classes of persons have significant interests.
- Several judges have thrown out democratically enacted term limits.
- The legislative framework: under the 1992 legislation as originally enacted.
- Adequate legislation should be enacted to ensure curbing of illegal activities in the forests.
- Some states have enacted statutes requiring mandatory reporting, civil and criminal penalties and emergency interventions.
- Parliament has not expressly enacted what standard of proof shall be applied on an application for a sex offender order.
- And at the same time, several German states have already enacted the proposed French style bans on student attire.
- Under your watch, laws eradicating civil liberties have been enacted which put into question the rights of citizens.
- The Brazilian government had recently enacted economic reforms that included a stabilized currency.
- The proposed law - expected to be enacted in July - also would compel companies to prevent workplace bad behavior.
- Congress enacted the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972 to protect dolphins from the effects of purse seine tuna fishing.
Synonyms
make law, pass, approve, ratify, validate, sanction, authorize, accept, give the seal of approval to
order, decree, ordain, legislate, legalize, rule
impose, lay down, implement, bring into effect, bring to bear, put into practice
informal give the go-ahead to, give the green light to, give the thumbs up to, OK, give the OK to
2Put into practice (an idea or suggestion)
把（信仰，想法，建议）付诸实施
the pressure group's aim was to see the proposals enacted
Example sentencesExamples
- It is not clear if Bremer formally enacted her recommendations or not.
- The French Revolution was an attempt to enact his ideas.
- If the Law Commission's recommendations are enacted they will remove some of the worst anomalies that currently bedevil the law on recovery for negligently inflicted psychiatric damage.
- The National Security Adviser joined the President at the ranch to discuss enacting recommendations that could be implemented immediately by executive order.
- Whereas a legislator must check his impulse to enact his religious precepts into law, an executive official faces a somewhat different problem.
- He had urged the immediate creation of the national intelligence post and promised that if elected he would enact the commission's recommendations by executive fiat.
- Lumber company and government employees were more likely to enact recommendations that were convenient and cheap.
- The commission's recommendations, if enacted, could prove critical to safeguarding the US.
- We needed time to enact the recommendations of the royal commission.
- He later challenged him to commit to enacting the recommendations of the report during his term as president.
- Because real people formulate and enact political ideas, it is often easy to locate the supposed evil of a given idea in its human agent.
- And more measures must be enacted to ensure doctors and surgeons are not severely overworked.
- Some items ask respondents about the ethical beliefs of their partners, regardless of whether the beliefs are behaviourally enacted or not.
- Without understanding why, she allowed herself to enact the strange thought.
- We hope the proposed improvements will be enacted during the current session of the Diet.
- We may still, as a rule, like to believe in marriage, but the reality is that we are increasingly choosing not to enact that belief.
- Most of the committee's recommendations were enacted.
3Act out (a role or play) on stage.
扮演（角色）；演（戏）
Mystery Plays were staged and enacted by members of the guilds
Example sentencesExamples
- Travelling drama groups visited different communities to enact short plays about gender violence.
- Once the moment has been enacted on stage, it can never come back.
- Thus, she argues, Plath's poems enact a theatrical performance rather than a sincere expression of mourning.
- When the children performed, enacting the various plays on stage, their disability was hardly on their mind.
- The baddie roles are enacted by Rob and Budd, professional stage actors from Hollywood.
- Yet scandal in the colonies was also enacted on the global stage of British imperialism.
- The actress enacts the role of Helen, a nun, who helps two children who are ostracised by society after the death of their parents due to AIDS.
- Perhaps the dramatist was unwilling to repeat material recently enacted in the True Tragedy.
- Damien Matthews enacts the role of the actor in the play and Herford himself plays the part of the lawyer.
Synonyms
act out, act, perform, play, appear in, stage, mount, put on, present, do
represent
1. 3.1be enacted Take place.
  walkers stopped to watch, aware that some tragedy was being enacted
  行人纷纷驻足观看，他们意识到某种悲剧正在发生。
  Example sentencesExamples
  What terrible tragedies have been enacted over the centuries in this battle between the weak and timid Fly and the cruel and bloodthirsty Spider!
  As if that wasn't enough, the drama was enacted against a background of domestic trauma.

Derivatives

enactable

adjective

What we are really looking for with interpreting statutes is ‘enactable preferences.’

enaction

noun

The crucial thing for an historian about nightmares and dreams more generally is that they are a form of social enaction.
Example sentencesExamples
- The Constitution forbids the enaction of laws contrary to Islam, it does not mandate the passage of laws demanded by Islam.
- While still working on the enaction of last year's academic program changes, this year the faculty is beginning an initiative to renew the curriculum.
- I think what councils have to do is consider the needs of young people with the enaction of this bill, which I do support.
- The work combines Latin and English liturgical texts and medieval poetry, with a dramatic enaction of the Passion story.

enactive

adjective

Business, technology, and entrepreneurship skills, incorporating enactive mastery components, should be topics for continuing education programs.
Example sentencesExamples
- It may enable trainees to experience enactive mastery from doing the things they originally feared.
- Self-organisation is one of the key notions in support of an enactive model in cognitive science.
- Further, enactive mastery, or the direct experience of completing tasks and overcoming obstacles, particularly in the early stages of career development, is positively related to self-efficacy.
- Although the metaphor of an ocean with many shores is helpful to illustrate the variety of spiritual realities, it is ultimately inadequate to convey the participatory and enactive nature of spiritual knowing.
- These writing results confirmed the sequential advantages of engaging in observational learning before engaging in enactive learning experiences.

enactor

noun

He appeared in a 1930 production of Shakespeare's Othello, eventually being recognized as the definitive enactor of the tragic Moor.
Example sentencesExamples
- Soldani replaced Bernini's heavily draped, reclining female figure with the beautiful nude body of the lifeless Christ and added the angels who tenderly cradle him, as enactors of feeling.
- The two unlikely and show-stealing turns come in Kris Kristofferson's haunted enactor of justice, and Keira Knightley's burned out piece of emotionally orphaned wreckage.

Origin

Late Middle English (formerly also as inact): from en-¹, in-², + act, suggested by medieval Latin inactare, inactitare.

Rhymes

abreact, abstract, act, attract, bract, compact, contract, counteract, diffract, exact, extract, fact, humpbacked, impact, interact, matter-of-fact, pact, protract, redact, refract, retroact, subcontract, subtract, tact, tract, transact, unbacked, underact, untracked

Definition of enact in US English:

enact

verb

[with object]

1Make (a bill or other proposal) law.
使（法案或其他议案）成为法律；制订（法律）；通过（法案等）；颁布（法令等）
legislation was enacted in 1987 to attract international companies
1987年制订了吸引国际性公司的法律。
1. 1.1 Put into practice (a belief, idea, or suggestion).
  把（信仰，想法，建议）付诸实施
2Act out (a role or play) on stage.
扮演（角色）；演（戏）

Origin

Late Middle English (formerly also as inact): from en-, in-, + act, suggested by medieval Latin inactare, inactitare.

词汇	enact
释义	Definition of enact in English: enact verb ɪˈnaktɛˈnakt [with object] 1Make (a bill or other proposal) law. 使（法案或其他议案）成为法律；制订（法律）；通过（法案等）；颁布（法令等） legislation was enacted to attract international companies 1987年制订了吸引国际性公司的法律。 Example sentencesExamples We should remember that no other group of citizens is consulted before measures are enacted to prevent illegal activity. They serve to impose what could never be legislatively enacted. The statute was enacted pursuant to Congress' power to regulate interstate commerce. Congress recently enacted sweeping anti-terrorism legislation which expanded law enforcement powers, and outlawed biological materials. Statutory rape laws were first enacted to protect minors from older predators. Remember, there has been no significant piece of reformist legislation enacted into law for nearly 30 years. Accordingly, she filed suit in federal court under the newly enacted Violence Against Women Act. After Virginia legislators enacted that colony's first comprehensive slave code in 1705, internal rather than outside influences predominated. In the United States, several states have already enacted genetic privacy laws. Hunted for its pelt, the lynx declined until protective legislation was enacted in the 1970s. Rather, Parliament was enacting legislation in which a number of classes of persons have significant interests. Several judges have thrown out democratically enacted term limits. The legislative framework: under the 1992 legislation as originally enacted. Adequate legislation should be enacted to ensure curbing of illegal activities in the forests. Some states have enacted statutes requiring mandatory reporting, civil and criminal penalties and emergency interventions. Parliament has not expressly enacted what standard of proof shall be applied on an application for a sex offender order. And at the same time, several German states have already enacted the proposed French style bans on student attire. Under your watch, laws eradicating civil liberties have been enacted which put into question the rights of citizens. The Brazilian government had recently enacted economic reforms that included a stabilized currency. The proposed law - expected to be enacted in July - also would compel companies to prevent workplace bad behavior. Congress enacted the Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972 to protect dolphins from the effects of purse seine tuna fishing. Synonyms make law, pass, approve, ratify, validate, sanction, authorize, accept, give the seal of approval to order, decree, ordain, legislate, legalize, rule impose, lay down, implement, bring into effect, bring to bear, put into practice informal give the go-ahead to, give the green light to, give the thumbs up to, OK, give the OK to 2Put into practice (an idea or suggestion) 把（信仰，想法，建议）付诸实施 the pressure group's aim was to see the proposals enacted Example sentencesExamples It is not clear if Bremer formally enacted her recommendations or not. The French Revolution was an attempt to enact his ideas. If the Law Commission's recommendations are enacted they will remove some of the worst anomalies that currently bedevil the law on recovery for negligently inflicted psychiatric damage. The National Security Adviser joined the President at the ranch to discuss enacting recommendations that could be implemented immediately by executive order. Whereas a legislator must check his impulse to enact his religious precepts into law, an executive official faces a somewhat different problem. He had urged the immediate creation of the national intelligence post and promised that if elected he would enact the commission's recommendations by executive fiat. Lumber company and government employees were more likely to enact recommendations that were convenient and cheap. The commission's recommendations, if enacted, could prove critical to safeguarding the US. We needed time to enact the recommendations of the royal commission. He later challenged him to commit to enacting the recommendations of the report during his term as president. Because real people formulate and enact political ideas, it is often easy to locate the supposed evil of a given idea in its human agent. And more measures must be enacted to ensure doctors and surgeons are not severely overworked. Some items ask respondents about the ethical beliefs of their partners, regardless of whether the beliefs are behaviourally enacted or not. Without understanding why, she allowed herself to enact the strange thought. We hope the proposed improvements will be enacted during the current session of the Diet. We may still, as a rule, like to believe in marriage, but the reality is that we are increasingly choosing not to enact that belief. Most of the committee's recommendations were enacted. 3Act out (a role or play) on stage. 扮演（角色）；演（戏） Mystery Plays were staged and enacted by members of the guilds Example sentencesExamples Travelling drama groups visited different communities to enact short plays about gender violence. Once the moment has been enacted on stage, it can never come back. Thus, she argues, Plath's poems enact a theatrical performance rather than a sincere expression of mourning. When the children performed, enacting the various plays on stage, their disability was hardly on their mind. The baddie roles are enacted by Rob and Budd, professional stage actors from Hollywood. Yet scandal in the colonies was also enacted on the global stage of British imperialism. The actress enacts the role of Helen, a nun, who helps two children who are ostracised by society after the death of their parents due to AIDS. Perhaps the dramatist was unwilling to repeat material recently enacted in the True Tragedy. Damien Matthews enacts the role of the actor in the play and Herford himself plays the part of the lawyer. Synonyms act out, act, perform, play, appear in, stage, mount, put on, present, do represent 3.1be enacted Take place. walkers stopped to watch, aware that some tragedy was being enacted 行人纷纷驻足观看，他们意识到某种悲剧正在发生。 Example sentencesExamples What terrible tragedies have been enacted over the centuries in this battle between the weak and timid Fly and the cruel and bloodthirsty Spider! As if that wasn't enough, the drama was enacted against a background of domestic trauma. Derivatives enactable adjective What we are really looking for with interpreting statutes is ‘enactable preferences.’ enaction noun The crucial thing for an historian about nightmares and dreams more generally is that they are a form of social enaction. Example sentencesExamples The Constitution forbids the enaction of laws contrary to Islam, it does not mandate the passage of laws demanded by Islam. While still working on the enaction of last year's academic program changes, this year the faculty is beginning an initiative to renew the curriculum. I think what councils have to do is consider the needs of young people with the enaction of this bill, which I do support. The work combines Latin and English liturgical texts and medieval poetry, with a dramatic enaction of the Passion story. enactive adjective Business, technology, and entrepreneurship skills, incorporating enactive mastery components, should be topics for continuing education programs. Example sentencesExamples It may enable trainees to experience enactive mastery from doing the things they originally feared. Self-organisation is one of the key notions in support of an enactive model in cognitive science. Further, enactive mastery, or the direct experience of completing tasks and overcoming obstacles, particularly in the early stages of career development, is positively related to self-efficacy. Although the metaphor of an ocean with many shores is helpful to illustrate the variety of spiritual realities, it is ultimately inadequate to convey the participatory and enactive nature of spiritual knowing. These writing results confirmed the sequential advantages of engaging in observational learning before engaging in enactive learning experiences. enactor noun He appeared in a 1930 production of Shakespeare's Othello, eventually being recognized as the definitive enactor of the tragic Moor. Example sentencesExamples Soldani replaced Bernini's heavily draped, reclining female figure with the beautiful nude body of the lifeless Christ and added the angels who tenderly cradle him, as enactors of feeling. The two unlikely and show-stealing turns come in Kris Kristofferson's haunted enactor of justice, and Keira Knightley's burned out piece of emotionally orphaned wreckage. Origin Late Middle English (formerly also as inact): from en-¹, in-², + act, suggested by medieval Latin inactare, inactitare. Rhymes abreact, abstract, act, attract, bract, compact, contract, counteract, diffract, exact, extract, fact, humpbacked, impact, interact, matter-of-fact, pact, protract, redact, refract, retroact, subcontract, subtract, tact, tract, transact, unbacked, underact, untracked Definition of enact in US English: enact verb [with object] 1Make (a bill or other proposal) law. 使（法案或其他议案）成为法律；制订（法律）；通过（法案等）；颁布（法令等） legislation was enacted in 1987 to attract international companies 1987年制订了吸引国际性公司的法律。 1.1 Put into practice (a belief, idea, or suggestion). 把（信仰，想法，建议）付诸实施 2Act out (a role or play) on stage. 扮演（角色）；演（戏） Origin Late Middle English (formerly also as inact): from en-, in-, + act, suggested by medieval Latin inactare, inactitare.
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