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1638 J. Mede Reverence Gods House 13 Those [laws] which are there [sc. in the New Testament] mentioned, to be brought in occasionally, onely by way of proofe..or the like, and not as by way of constitution or re-enacting.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. viii. 369 That Precept..was no other than the re-enacting of that old Commandment.

1764 R. Burn Justice of Peace (ed. 10) I. 56 This statute of the 5 Eliz. is only a re-enacting, as it were, of former statutes.

1790 A. Hamilton Enq. Princ. Taxation i. ii. 36 At this time, the re-enacting of the former laws was all that was judged necessary.

1825 Times 14 Feb. 3/1 The re-enacting of the ‘old penal code’.

1896 Virginia Law Reg. 2 148 An Act providing for the appointment and removal of coroners, and for the enacting and re-enacting of Section 891 of the Code of Virginia, 1887.

1931 Times 14 July 20/7 In the House of Commons yesterday Mr. Ede asked whether the re-enacting of Barnard's Act, 1733, would be considered.

2002 S. M. Draibe in J. Dixon & R. P. Scheurell State of Social Welfare ii. 64 Proposed reforms include..the reenacting and redefining of minimum levels for social benefits.

1851 P. Fairbairn Ezekiel & his Bk. of Prophecy xx. 181 God's future dealings with his people are presented under the..image of a re-enacting of the scenes of the wilderness.

1897 Catholic World Apr. 128 The re-enacting of the great epics of the past.

1933 A. D. Nock Conversion xiii. 234 The Eucharist..became the re-enacting of that [sc. Christ's] death.

1963 F. C. Crews Pooh Perplex 133 The mechanical, repetitive nature of A. A. Milne's act points to the anxiety neurosis sufferer's obsessive re-enacting of the ‘others'’ (Mummy and Daddy's) traumatic activity.

2004 P. S. Anderson in P. S. Anderson & B. Clack Feminist Philos. of Relig. i. vi. 93 She advocates both a re-enacting of, and a critical distancing from, the stories found in Indian scriptures.