Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of the nature of an enactment or of enactments; relating to enactments: as, bills enactory and declaratory.
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Examples
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This also made it hard to say whether Lord Aberdeen's Act were enactory or declaratory, a predicament, however, which equally affects all statutes
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various
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If enactory, then why did the House of Lords give judgment against those who allowed weight to the 'call?'
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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This also made it hard to say whether Lord Aberdeen's Act were enactory or declaratory,
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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The most shockingly searching, influential, and permanent blunder that ever has affected the mind of man has been the fancy that a religion includes a creed as to its [Greek: aporrhêta], and a morality; in short, that it was doctrinal by necessity, enactory, and (which has been the practical part of the blunder) therefore exclusive, because:
The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 Thomas De Quincey 1822
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