ena

n. The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Purpose; determination. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Enacting. ] 1. To decree; to establish by legal and authoritative act; to make into a law; especially, to perform the legislative act with reference to (a bill) which gives it the validity of law. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To act; to perform; to do; to effect. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The king enacts more wonders than a man. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To act the part of; to represent; to play. [ 1913 Webster ]

I did enact Julius Caesar. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Enacting clause, that clause of a bill which formally expresses the legislative sanction. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having power to enact or establish as a law. Abp. Bramhall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as, a prohibitory enactment; a social enactment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who enacts a law; one who decrees or establishes as a law. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Enactment; resolution. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Paleon.) One of the Enaliosauria. [ 1913 Webster ]