Definition of "act" []

• The process of doing or performing something: the act of thinking. (noun)
• Something done or performed; a deed: a charitable act. (noun)
• A product, such as a statute, decree, or enactment, resulting from a decision by a legislative or judicial body: an act of Congress. (noun)
• A formal written record of proceedings or transactions. (noun)
• One of the major divisions of a play or opera. (noun)

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• "As I consider it one of the most important qualifications in a judge to have the discernment I refer to, and as many are appointed judges, even at our national shows, _who never should have been appointed, and many act who never should act_, it ought to be put out of all doubt."
• "So far as the Scriptures seem to suggest there is not a fresh act upon God's part at certain times in one's experience, but His wondrous love is such that there is _a continuous act_ -- a continuous flooding in of all the gracious power of His Spirit that the human conditions will admit of."