enactive

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adjective

Having power to enact or establish as a law.

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Meanings

adjectiveenactive (not comparable)
  1. not comparableHaving 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

From enact + -ive.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with enactive

activeinteractiveattractiveinactiveradioactivereactiveproactiverefractiveunattractivehyperactiveextractiveoveractiveimmunoreactivesubtractiveunderactivetractivefactivecontractiveabstractivecounteractivedetractivedistractivehyperreactivehypoactive
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Cite this entry
APA

enactive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enactive

MLA

“enactive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enactive. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enactive,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enactive.

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