re-enact

re-enact
re-enact (v.) also reenact, 1670s, from RE- (Cf. re-) "back, again" + ENACT (Cf. enact). Originally of laws, etc.; meaning "to perform again, reproduce" is recorded from 1854. Related: Re-enacted; re-enacting.

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