Establish vs Enactive - What's the difference?
establish | enactive |
To make stable or firm; to confirm.
*
To form; to found; to institute; to set up in business.
* , (w) 6:18
To appoint or adopt, as officers, laws, regulations, guidelines, etc.; to enact; to ordain.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=4 To prove and cause to be accepted as true; to establish a fact; to demonstrate.
Having power to enact or establish as a law.
* Archbishop John Bramhall
As a verb establish
is to make stable or firm; to confirm.As an adjective enactive is
having power to enact or establish as a law.establish
English
Verb
(es)- But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives with thee.
citation, passage=By some paradoxical evolution rancour and intolerance have been established in the vanguard of primitive Christianity. Mrs. Spoker, in common with many of the stricter disciples of righteousness, was as inclement in demeanour as she was cadaverous in aspect.}}
Derived terms
* established church * establishing shot * long-establishedReferences
* *enactive
English
Adjective
(-)- the case is as clear as the light, that this very statute is declarative of old fundamental law, not enactive of new law.