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Act (ăkt), n. [L. actus, fr. agere to drive, do: cf. F. acte. See Agent.] 1. That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.
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That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
Wordsworth.
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Hence, in specific uses: (a) The result of public deliberation; the decision or determination of a legislative body, council, court of justice, etc.; a decree, edit, law, judgment, resolve, award; as, an act of Parliament, or of Congress. (b) A formal solemn writing, expressing that something has been done. Abbott. (c) A performance of part of a play; one of the principal divisions of a play or dramatic work in which a certain definite part of the action is completed. (d) A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
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2. A state of reality or real existence as opposed to a possibility or possible existence. [Obs.]
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The seeds of plants are not at first in act, but in possibility, what they afterward grow to be.
Hooker.
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3. Process of doing; action. In act, in the very doing; on the point of (doing). “In act to shoot.” Dryden.
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This woman was taken . . . in the very act.
John viii. 4.
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Act of attainder. (Law) See Attainder. -- Act of bankruptcy (Law), an act of a debtor which renders him liable to be adjudged a bankrupt. -- Act of faith. (Ch. Hist.) See Auto-da-Fé. -- Act of God (Law), an inevitable accident; such extraordinary interruption of the usual course of events as is not to be looked for in advance, and against which ordinary prudence could not guard. -- Act of grace, an expression often used to designate an act declaring pardon or amnesty to numerous offenders, as at the beginning of a new reign. -- Act of indemnity, a statute passed for the protection of those who have committed some illegal act subjecting them to penalties. Abbott. -- Act in pais, a thing done out of court (anciently, in the country), and not a matter of record.
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Syn. -- See Action.
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Act, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Acted; p. pr. & vb. n. Acting.] [L. actus, p. p. of agere to drive, lead, do; but influenced by E. act, n.] 1. To move to action; to actuate; to animate. [Obs.]
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Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul.
Pope.
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2. To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic]
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That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity.
Jer. Taylor.
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Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do.
Barrow.
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Uplifted hands that at convenient times
Could act extortion and the worst of crimes.
Cowper.
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3. To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
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4. To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
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5. To feign or counterfeit; to simulate.
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With acted fear the villain thus pursued.
Dryden.
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To act a part, to sustain the part of one of the characters in a play; hence, to simulate; to dissemble. -- To act the part of, to take the character of; to fulfill the duties of.
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Act, v. i. 1. To exert power; to produce an effect; as, the stomach acts upon food.
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2. To perform actions; to fulfill functions; to put forth energy; to move, as opposed to remaining at rest; to carry into effect a determination of the will.
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He hangs between, in doubt to act or rest.
Pope.
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3. To behave or conduct, as in morals, private duties, or public offices; to bear or deport one's self; as, we know not why he has acted so.
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4. To perform on the stage; to represent a character.
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To show the world how Garrick did not act.
Cowper.
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To act as or To act for, to do the work of; to serve as. -- To act on, to regulate one's conduct according to. -- To act up to, to equal in action; to fulfill in practice; as, he has acted up to his engagement or his advantages.
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