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Dibdin enacts in his inspections of high-society libraries.

"Wedded to Books': Bibliomania and the Romantic Essayists 2004

Paragraph 20 of this document in very concise terms enacts that no one is to publish "libros vel libellos precum" (prayer-books or booklets) as well as works of devotion or religious instruction etc., even though they may seem calculated to foster piety, "without the permission of lawful authority", a somewhat vague phrase which is generally interpreted to mean without the imprimatur of the ordinary:

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

It re-enacts the irresistable impulses and the skewed perspective the narrator's altered mental state is producing, just as the narrator himself re-enacts events that make him feel more at ease in his transformed world, that give him a sense of belonging in an environment that has otherwise become unacceptably alien.

Point of View in Fiction 2009

Burrows enacts their fate in ballet mime, a Morris dance and an old cockney song.

Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion - review Judith Mackrell 2010

Art in its specific sense enacts more deliberately and fully the conditions that effect this unity.

John Dewey's *Art as Experience* 2010

This seems extreme, and the Elders of Sodom are not terribly keen on draconian legislation that enacts such sweeping moral dicta.

An Open Letter to the Usual Suspects Hal Duncan 2010

Murdoch re-enacts a scene of a man overwhelmed by the particular kind of embarrassment inspired by a beautiful woman.

Love, Belle and Sebastian-style Laura Barton 2010

Her Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate and House of Commons of Canada, enacts as follows:

Bill C-398 ‘necessary and timely’: Charlie Angus 2009

Now, as she prepares for a new show in which she enacts her own funeral, the 63-year-old reveals why "Freud would have had a field day" with her

Interview: Marina Abramovic Sean O 2010

As it enacts a glory we desire, a power we thrill to imagine -- even if our basic wish is only to see it as spectacle -- the narrative takes a modality of "must/should happen."

On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010