enactive en · ADJ
Etymology
From enact + -ive.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having power to enact or establish as a law.
[…] the case is as clear as the light, that this very statute is declarative of old fundamental law, not enactive of new law.
1654, John Bramhall, A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism: