2. To perform; to execute; to do. [Archaic]

That we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity.

Jer. Taylor.

Industry doth beget by producing good habits, and facility of acting things expedient for us to do.

Barrow.

Uplifted hands that at convenient times

Could act extortion and the worst of crimes.

Cowper.

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