enactive

English

Etymology

From enact +‎ -ive.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -æktɪv

Adjective

enactive (not comparable)

1. Having power to enact or establish as a law.
   • 1654, John Bramhall, A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism:

     […] the case is as clear as the light, that this very statute is declarative of old fundamental law, not enactive of new law.

Derived terms

• enactively