Enact vs Attain - What's the difference?
enact | attain | Related terms |
(legal) to make (a bill) into law
to act the part of; to play
* Shakespeare
to do; to effect
* Shakespeare
To accomplish; to achieve.
To get at the knowledge of; to ascertain.
* Fuller
To reach or come to, by progression or motion; to arrive at.
* Milton
* Bible, Psalms cxxxix. 6
To come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc.; to reach.
* Bible, Acts xxvii. 12
* Sir Walter Scott
* Cowper
* J. R. Green
To reach in excellence or degree; to equal.
(obsolete) To overtake.
Enact is a related term of attain.
In lang=en terms the difference between enact and attain
is that enact is to do; to effect while attain is to come or arrive, by motion, growth, bodily exertion, or efforts toward a place, object, state, etc; to reach.In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between enact and attain
is that enact is (obsolete) purpose; determination while attain is (obsolete) to overtake.As verbs the difference between enact and attain
is that enact is (legal) to make (a bill) into law while attain is to accomplish; to achieve.As a noun enact
is (obsolete) purpose; determination.enact
English
Verb
(en verb)- I did enact Julius Caesar.
- The king enacts more wonders than a man.
Derived terms
* enactability * enactable * enactably * enaction * enactorattain
English
Verb
(en verb)- To attain such a high level of proficiency requires hours of practice each day.
- not well attaining his meaning
- Canaan he now attains .
- Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it.
- if by any means they might attain to Phenice
- Nor nearer might the dogs attain .
- to see your trees attain to the dignity of timber
- Few boroughs had as yet attained to power such as this.
- (Francis Bacon)