Definition of "acts" []

• Plural form of act. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of act. (verb)

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• "The first are acts good in themselves, _as acts_, apart from any intention of the agent which may or may not have been directed towards {196} "right.""
• "Among other horrid acts Platina relates that he _rescinded the acts_ of Pope Formosus, compelled those whom he had ordained to be re-ordained, dragged his dead body from the sepulchre, beheaded him as though he were alive, and then threw him into the Tiber!"
• ""The sole acts of variation, _i. e._, the only acts which rise above the limits of habits, and which we see performed in animals whose organization allows them to, are _acts of imitation_."