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Enact vs Enactive - What's the difference?

enact | enactive |

As a verb enact

is (legal) to make (a bill) into law.

As a noun enact

is (obsolete) purpose; determination.

As an adjective enactive is

having power to enact or establish as a law.

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)

    enactive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having power to enact or establish as a law.
  • * Archbishop John Bramhall
    • the case is as clear as the light, that this very statute is declarative of old fundamental law, not enactive of new law.