Other forms: enacted, enacting, enacts
To enact is to make a proposal into law. Enact the bill, newly enacted, enact legislation.
It is the technical verb for the moment a proposal becomes binding, which is a different step from passing or from coming into force — a law can be enacted and not yet in effect. It also means to act something out: enact a scene. Note act, from the Latin for driving or doing.
1verbenactTo make a proposal into law.
“Parliament enacted a new law banning smoking in restaurants.”
2verbactTo act something out.
“The children enacted the story of Noah's ark for their parents.”
enact is a making law.
Also accepted in games: pass
En- plus act, from Latin actum, a thing done, from agere, to drive or do. Agent and agile come from the same doing.
Latin
in- — in
Old French
en- — to cause to be
Middle English
enacten
English, today
enact
Built from
From Middle English enacten, from en-, from Old French en- (“to cause to be”), from Latin in- (“in”) and Old French acte (“perform, do”), from Latin actum, past participle of ago (“set in motion”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA