effectual
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7.5
- adjective
- /ɪˈfɛkʧuəl/
- Formal
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efectivo
- The Trustees therefore ordered the Committee of Correspondence to prepare an act to enable them to appoint commissioners for the more effectual execution in a summary way of an Act to prevent the importation and use of rum and brandies in the Province of Georgia.
Examples
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The new regulations were designed to be effectual in protecting consumers from fraud.
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One of the most significant implications of Ostrom's analysis is the revelation that the agreements among the watercourse states might be effectual, and therefore watercourse states would be willing to make commitments to each other.
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The only effectual way to handle it is to cut off its head by legal prohibition and bury it forever.
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The legislator that makes effectual laws for promoting trade, increasing employment, improving land by more or better tillage, providing more food by fisheries, securing property, etc.
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What the looneytarians usually fail to realize is that to effectively sue someone, there has to be a sound legal system in place, complete with an effectual enforcement arm (the "men with guns" looneytarians love to denounce).
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And this right—the core of the First Amendment—"has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right." 59
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They had been "appointed for the sole and express purpose of revising the confederation, and to alter or amend it, so as to render it effectual for the purposes of good government." 143
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According to Wikipedia, the Act's long title was "An Act for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing of the rioters."
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To ensure the treaty was effectual, all parties agreed to the terms laid out in the final document.
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The committee implemented effectual strategies to improve community health and safety.
Synonyms
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Beginning to be used from a particular date
Words that make something happen when someone says them, for example a judge's decision
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Etymology
The word effectual comes from the Latin efficere, which means 'to bring about' or 'to make', and it shares the same root as the familiar word effect. So in law an effectual document is one that really makes a change and has legal force.