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enactive

enactive adjective: having power to enact or establish as a law.

Adjective

enactive (not comparable)

  1. Having power to enact or establish as a law.
    • […] the case is as clear as the light, that this very statute is declarative of old fundamental law, not enactive of new law.1654, John Bramhall, A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism

Origin of enactive

From enact + -ive.

Words formed from enactive

Words that rhyme with enactive

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Questions about enactive

What does enactive mean?
Enactive means having power to enact or establish as a law.
What part of speech is enactive?
Enactive is an adjective.

Words near enactive in the dictionary

  1. enacting
  2. enactings
  3. enactins
  4. enaction
  5. enactions
  6. enactive
  7. enactively
  8. enactivism
  9. enactivist
  10. enactivists
  11. enactment

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