enactive
English
Etymology
enact + -ive
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æktɪv
Adjective
enactive (not comparable)
- 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.
- 1654, John Bramhall, A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism