enactive

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English

Etymology

From enact +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

Adjective

enactive (not comparable)

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

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