re-enact
/riːɪˈnakt
/verb [with object]
1Act out (a past event): bombers were gathered together to re-enact the historic first air attack...
- Today's Dresden Stollen Festival, which has been celebrated every year since 1994, re-enacts the historical event of the giant stollen, with a 3,500 kilogram cake shown at the Dresden Zwinger.
- The clocks were turned back exactly 150 years in historic Haworth to re-enact the wedding of one of Britain's favourite classical authors.
- Years later, at the 2000 Vancouver International Film Festival, I sat with many of the same people to see the premiere of Scorn, which re-enacts the events surrounding the murders.
2Bring (a law) into effect again when the original statute has been repealed or has expired: section 3 of the Act re-enacted the form of strict liability formerly found in the Dogs Act...
- Further, many significant English statutes affecting private law were re-enacted here, producing local uniformity and access to a body of valuable English decisions construing those statutes.
- Long ago, Sir Owen Dixon pointed out that it is quite artificial to think that Parliament in re-enacting legislation is giving it the same meaning that courts had attributed to it in earlier cases.
- If one simply re-enacts the current law it will have no effect at all on the Court of Appeal decision.
Derivatives
re-enactor
- The public appreciate the added value of seeing re-enactors and the opportunity to compare their equipment with genuine items on display.
- Tudor re-enactors will perform a masque with singing, dancing, music and storytelling in the Painted Hall of the Old Royal Naval College, in Greenwich, at 2pm on Saturday and Sunday.
- Over 650 re-enactors dressed in authentic costume, as well as military vehicles and equipment from the era, will colour the whole line through Pickering, Levisham, Goathland and Grosmont.