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Reenact

Reenact \Re`["e]n*act"\ (r?`?n*?kt"), v. t. To enact again.

Wiktionary
reenact

vb. 1 To enact again. 2 To recreate an event, especially a historical battle.

WordNet
reenact
  1. v. enact or perform again; "They reenacted the battle of Princeton"

  2. enact again; "Congress reenacted the law"

  3. act out; represent or perform as if in a play; "She reenacted what had happened earlier that day" [syn: enact, act out]

Usage examples of "reenact".

The Court held that the provisions of the Reapportionment Act of 1929 did not reenact the requirements of the act of 1911 and that it was therefore unnecessary to determine whether the questions raised were justiciable.

If the play we would be performing that night represented the beginning of shri, this rite reenacts the beginning of the Order.

The mass spread into a disk and almost as quickly coalesced again, reenacting planetary evolution at a billion times the speed.

That Madame Psychosis, an only child, had been extremely and heart-warmingly close to her father, a low-pH chemist for a Kentucky reagent outfit, who'd apparently had an extremely close only-child and watching-movies-together-based relationship with his own mother and seemed to reenact the closeness with Madame Psychosis, taking her to movies on a near-daily basis, in Kentucky, and driving her all over the mid-South for various junior baton-twirling competitions while his wife, Madame Psychosis's mother, a devoutly religious but wounded and neurasthenic woman with a fear of public spaces, stayed home on the family farm, canning preserves and seeing to the administration of the farm, etc.

It would be reenacted with humans Christmas Eve, but a local sculptor had created the beautiful statues and several artists had done woodwork for the manger and life-size stable, and others had painted the entire backdrop.

No, if the Supreme Court invalidated the amendment, oh, we might reenact a few of the laws, but the main weapon for civil rights and civil liberties would be gone forever.

Here on the perimeter of a respectable residential neighborhood in Anaheim, the home of Disneyland, scenes from A Clockwork Orange weren't reenacted every day.

Seeing the preponderance and variety of uniforms, I felt a shiver of recognition: a regimented society, each job given its rank and place and dress, ancient grand schemes reenacted on Lamarckia.

The crime du Jour was being reenacted in a hockey rink in the suburb of St.

We’ve learned the dialogue so well that many times we get into situations and the whole family reenacts an entire scene from the movie, word for word.

Looking around at his companions in their cloaks and doublets and trunk-hose, cradling their hawks on one arm and their spike-tipped block perches with the other, he felt as if he were part of a religious procession on its way to reenact some vaguely sinister passion, whose lost significance only Hamid knew now.

It was from the legend of Holy Boy, the legend reenacted in the Yeibichai ceremony.