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Definition of Enactor
1. n. One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law.
Definition of Enactor
1. Noun. One who enacts. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enactor
1. one that enacts [n -S] - See also: enacts
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enactor
Literary usage of Enactor
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Goldsmith's Roman History: Abridged by Himself, for the Use of Schools by Oliver Goldsmith (1825)
"Twelve Tables had forbidden the patricians to intermarry with the plebeians; and
he could not infringe these, as he was the enactor of them. ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"ENACT, va ) From en and ACT, which enactor, n. $. > see. ... The great author of
our nature, and enactor of this law of good and evil, is highly dishonoured ..."
3. Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving by George Clinton Densmore Odell (1920)
"... the queen's attendant—a small confidant part—which is just the kind of part
you would expect the enactor of "Count Paris's Wife" to be entrusted with; ..."
4. Author's & Printer's Dictionary: A Guide for Authors by Frederick Howard Collins (1912)
"... semicolon, note of exclamation, and of interrogation, when not ending a
sentence ; — rule (see punctuation, XII). enactor*, not -er. en amateur (Fr.), ..."
5. Goldsmith's Roman History by Oliver Goldsmith (1818)
"... the patricians to intermarry wi,th the plebeians ;— and lie could not infringe
these, as he was the. enactor of them. Nothing therefore remained but a ..."
6. Historical Introductions to the Rolls Series by William Stubbs, Arthur Hassall (1902)
"... and cannot with any certainty be assigned to him as its re-enactor.a William
of Malmesbury has preserved a tradition which serves to present Dunstan in ..."
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