Word Meanings - REENACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To enact again.
Related words: (words related to REENACT)
- ENACTMENT
1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, - ENACTURE
Enactment; resolution. Shak. - AGAINSTAND
To withstand. - AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif. - ENACTOR
One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury. - AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again, - AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in - AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer. - ENACTIVE
Having power to enact or establish as a law. Abp. Bramhall. - AGAINWARD
Back again. - AGAINBUY
To redeem. Wyclif. - ENACT
1. To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to which gives it the validity of law. 2. To act; to perform; to do; to effect. The king enacts more wonders - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - REENACT
To enact again. - REENACTION
The act of re - REENACTMENT
The enacting or passing of a law a second time; the renewal of a law.