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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.]
   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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   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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   To perform, as an actor; to represent dramatically on the stage.
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   To assume the office or character of; to play; to personate; as, to act the hero.
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   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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