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Definition of Reenact

1. Verb. Enact or perform again. "They reenacted the battle of Princeton"

2. Verb. Enact again. "Congress reenacted the law"

3. Verb. Act out; represent or perform as if in a play. "She reenacted what had happened earlier that day"

Definition of Reenact

1. Verb. To enact again. ¹

2. Verb. To recreate an event, especially a historical battle. ¹

3. Verb. (alternative spelling of reenact) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reenact

1. enact [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: enact

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reenact

reemphasize reemphasized reemphasizes reemphasizing reemploy reemployed reemploying reemployment reemployments reemploys

reen reenable reenabled reenables reenabling reenact (current term) reenacted reenacting reenaction reenactions

reenactment reenactments reenactor reenactors reenacts reencode reencoded reencodes reencoding reencounter

Literary usage of Reenact

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"... the malignants of the cowl and the hood were not least among the influences that were to reenact upon the English settler the horrors of Schenectady. ..."

2. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"... the malignants of the cowl and the hood were not least among the influences that were to reenact upon the English settler the horrors of Schenectady. ..."

3. Ireland Past and Present by Augustus J. Thébaud, John Habberton (1878)
"And the further fact that it was thought necessary to reenact those odious laws frequently in subsequent Irish Parliaments proves that they were not carried ..."

4. Extension of Morrill Acts to District of Columbia by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (1910)
"... and Congress was asked to reenact the clause of the original charter of 1821, providing that no person should be excluded from membership on the board ..."

5. Salmon Portland Chase by Albert Bushnell Hart (1899)
"Sir," exclaimed Chase, " I should like to know what laws we are to reenact if we are not to reenact the will of God — the rights of human nature are not ..."

6. Police Body Armor Standards and Testing by Office of Technology Assessment, United States, Congress (1992)
"Let n,be the number of (2-shot) tests conducted in the lab to reenact the shots that caused no injury rated AIS 4 or higher; n,is the number of controls. ..."

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