单词 | re-enact |
释义 | re-enactv. 1. transitive. To enact again; esp. to bring (a law or regulation) into effect again. Also: to renew (a statute). ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > make (laws) or establish as law [verb (transitive)] > pass a (law) > again renewc1400 re-enact1613 re-enforce1635 repass1769 1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript ii. ii. sig. O6 This yeare they make a Law, repeal't the next, Then re-inact it, and then change the text. 1676 Seasonable Question 9 30 or 40 Parliaments..have confirmed and re-enacted the same Charter. 1727 J. Arbuthnot Tables Anc. Coins 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. 1784 E. Allen Reason v. §2. 193 Rites and ceremonies..may be..abolished, re-enacted, compounded or diversified, as conveniency..may dictate. 1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. (ed. 2) xxxiii. 358 In 1825 an attempt to re-enact some of the most objectionable [laws] was made. 1865 H. Phillips Amer. Paper Currency II. 38 All the regulations of the prior resolution..were herein re-enacted. 1902 Amer. Hist. Rev. 8 23 Although these [court laws] were repealed frequently in England, yet they were again and again re-enacted. 1977 W. B. Scott In Pursuit of Happiness iv. 67 With the South out of the Union, Congress in 1862 reenacted the bill and Lincoln signed it into law. 2007 Tribune-Democrat (Johnstown, Pa) (Nexis) 19 Dec. (State and Regional News) The financially distressed City of Johnstown, struggling to balance its 2008 budget, is asking Cambria County Court..for permission to re-enact the commuter tax. 2. transitive. To reproduce, recreate, or perform again; esp. to give a dramatic reproduction of (a past event). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > repeating > repeat (an action) [verb (transitive)] renovela1325 reiterate?a1425 replicate?a1425 repeat?1440 iter1530 iterate?1548 redouble1580 redo1598 second1610 answer1613 renewa1616 ingeminate1625 reiter1634 double1645 reperform1651 rename1665 rehandle1697 retracta1699 rehearse1700 re-enact1819 1819 W. S. Rose Court & Parl. Beasts i. 8 Bethink ye of the fable of the frog. Beasts, do not let us re-enact King Log. 1854 J. 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’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 464/1 My yachting friends need never expect to see her with her present rig re-enacting the America. 1890 M. Oliphant Kirsteen III. xiv. 261 The picture would come back, and the scene re-enact itself before his eyes. 1900 Overland Monthly Aug. 101 He re-enacts in pantomime the hideous crime which dominates his tortured brain sleeping or awake. 1959 Economist 8 Aug. 349/2 In re-enacting the crime, the study group had gathered a mass of information and technical detail. 1980 T. Wynne-Jones Odd's End xiii. 113 We re-enact the shooting of the Rood kid and the subsequent hanging/suicide every afternoon at four, followed by a clambake. 2002 Daily Tel. 22 Oct. 27/3 Hunting..is an antiquarian passion, an attempt to get in touch with, and re-enact, things as they used to be. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1613 |
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