Definition

1. Verb:
   • To make into law: To formally establish a rule, statute, or law through an official legislative process.
   • To act out or perform: To represent or perform a role, scene, or story, as if in a play or reenactment.

Usage and Examples

• As a verb (to make law):
  • The government plans to enact new regulations to protect the environment.
  • The city council enacted a curfew for minors.
• As a verb (to act out):
  • The students will enact a scene from Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet".
  • The documentary used actors to enact key historical events.

Advanced Usage

• "to enact legislation": to formally pass a law.
  • It took years for the parliament to enact the necessary legislation.
• "to enact a role": to perform or portray a character.
  • She brilliantly enacted the part of a grieving mother.

Variants and Related Words

• Enactment (n): 1. The process of making a law. 2. An instance of acting something out.
  • The enactment of the bill was celebrated.
  • The play was an enactment of ancient myths.
• Reenact (v): To enact again; to perform a recreation of a past event.
  • History enthusiasts reenact famous battles.

Synonyms

• Legislate, Pass, Ordain (for the law-making sense).
• Perform, Portray, Stage, Act out (for the performance sense).

Antonyms

• Repeal, Rescind, Abolish (for the law-making sense).

Related Phrases

• To be enacted into law: To complete the process of becoming official law.
  • The proposal was finally enacted into law last week.

Verb

1. act out; represent or perform as if in a play
   • She reenacted what had happened earlier that day
2. order by virtue of superior authority; decree
   • The King ordained the persecution and expulsion of the Jews
   • the legislature enacted this law in 1985