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Enacted vs Formulate - What's the difference?

enacted | formulate |

As verbs the difference between enacted and formulate

is that enacted is (enact) while formulate is to reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.

enacted

English

Verb

(head)
  • (enact)

  • 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

    Noun

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

    formulate

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Verb

  • To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.
  • *
  • Another source of evidence supporting the conclusion that children learn language by formulating a set of rules comes from the errors'' that they produce. A case in point are overgeneralized past tense forms like ''comed'', ''goed'', ''seed'', ''buyed'', ''bringed , etc. frequently used by young children. [...]