transitive. With to (and occasionally other prepositions). To cause to undergo or be subjected to a specified punishment, difficult circumstance…

transitive. Originally Scottish. To ordain, decree; to enact in a statute. Frequently with that-clause as object. Also occasionally intransitive. Now…

transitive. Of a legislative authority: to make into an act; to make legally binding; to ordain, decree. Also with that-clause. Cf. enact, v. 2a.

transitive. To decree or judge; to regulate; to authorize. Usually in passive.

Of a legislative authority: To make into an act (see act, n. 5b); hence, to ordain, decree. Also with obj.-clause introduced by that. (In early…

In early use esp. in conventional formulas. transitive. To ordain or decree, esp. as a legal statute or act; = enact, v. 2. Obsolete.

= enact, v.

transitive. To publish (a law); to decree.