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.