enactive

adj

enactive

adj

Etymology From enact + -ive.

1

Having power to enact or establish as a law.

[…] 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:

Derived terms: enactively

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