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re-eˈnact, v.
[re- 5 a.]
1. trans. To enact (a law, etc.) again. Hence re-eˈnacting vbl. n.
a1676Hale Prim. Orig. Man. iv. viii. (1677) 369 That Precept..was no other than the re-enacting of that old Commandment. 1705Arbuthnot Coins, etc. (1727) 259 The Construction of Ships was forbidden to Senators, by a law made by Claudius, Tribune of the people,..and re-enacted by the Julian Law of Concussions. 1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxxiii. (1835) 363 note, In 1825 an attempt to re⁓enact some of the most objectionable was made. 1865H. Phillips Amer. Paper Curr. II. 38 All the regulations of the prior resolution..were herein re-enacted.
2. To act or perform again; to reproduce.
1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. v. 89 Napoleon had no desire to see the Reign of Terror re-enacted in the cities of Italy. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rural Sports 464/1 My yachting friends need never expect to see her with her present rig re-enacting the America.
So re-eˈnaction, re-eˈnactment.
1803Hist. Europe in Ann. Reg. (1804) 14/2 Lord Limerick positively asserted that the re-enactment of those bills was absolutely necessary for the tranquility of the country. 1855H. Clarke Dict., Reenaction. 1860Forster Gr. Remonstr. 2 The Petition..was but the affirmation and re-enactment of the precedents of the three foregoing centuries.
▸ re-enactment society n. an association whose members re-enact events (often battles) from a particular historical period, in replica costume and using replica weapons, etc.; cf. re-enactor n.
1975Atlanta Daily World 30 Nov. 3/5 Trained in military procedure and drill of the Eighteenth Century by the Second Georgia Battalion of the National *Reenactment Society. 1992Indiamail 22 Sept. 3/3 The infamous King, and his courtiers and ambassadors, are being played by a dozen members of a re-enactment society. |