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Actuality.
(RQ:Hooker Laws)
Something done once and for all, as distinguished from a work.
A product of a body, a statute.
(quote-journal)
The process of doing something.
A formal or official record of something done.
(senseid) A division of a theatrical performance.
(RQ:Orczy Miss Elliott) will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday (..) that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth. (..)”
A performer or performers in a show.
Any organized activity.
(quote-book)
A display of behaviour.
A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the proficiency of a student.
A display of behaviour meant to deceive.

''to put on an act''

(senseid) (ellipsis of)
To do something.
To do (something); to perform.
(RQ:Taylor Holy Living)
(RQ:Barrow Works)
{{quote-text|en|year=1782|author=William Cowper|title=Expostulation
To perform a theatrical role.
Of a play: to be acted out (well or badly).
To behave in a certain manner for an indefinite length of time.
To convey an appearance of being.
To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
To have an effect (on).
To play (a role).
To feign.
(RQ:Dryden Aeneis)
To carry out work as a legal representative in relation to a particular legal matter.
To map via a homomorphism to a group of automorphisms (of).
To move to action; to actuate; to animate.
(RQ:Pope Essay on Man)
To enact; to decree.(R:DSL)
(clipping of)
(alt form)
(alt sp)
(l), deed, action
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decree