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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
act \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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see also:
acted acting to act a part to act the part of
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