ppl. a. [f. ACT v. + -ED.] Carried out in action; performed (esp. dramatically); feigned.

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1597.  Daniel, Civile Wares, V. lxxiii. Envie had been unable to reprove His acted life unless shee did him wrong.

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1648.  Milton, Tenure of Kings, Wks. 1738, I. 322. All the acted zeal that for these many years hath fill’d their bellies.

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1855.  Tennyson, Will, 12. But ill for him who … ever weaker grows thro’ acted crime.

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1859.  Jephson, Brittany, vii. 86. The acted drama cannot long survive among a reading people.

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