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Acts vs Enacts - What's the difference?

acts | enacts |

As a noun acts

is .

As a verb enacts is

(enact).

acts

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • (biblical)

    • Anagrams

    *

    enacts

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (enact)

    • Anagrams

    * * *

    enact

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (legal) to make (a bill) into law
  • to act the part of; to play
  • * Shakespeare
    • I did enact Julius Caesar.
  • to do; to effect
  • * Shakespeare
    • The king enacts more wonders than a man.

    Derived terms

    * enactability * enactable * enactably * enaction * enactor

    Related terms

    * act

    Noun

  • (obsolete) purpose; determination
    • (Webster 1913)