Legislate
['ledʒɪsleɪt] or ['lɛdʒɪslet]
Definition
(verb.) make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation; 'They passed the amendment'; 'We cannot legislate how people spend their free time'.
Typist: Lolita--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) To make or enact a law or laws.
Typed by Aldo
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Make laws, enact laws.
Checker: Ramona
Definition
v.i. to bring forward propose or make laws.—n. Legislā′tion.—adj. Leg′islative giving or enacting laws: pertaining to legislation or a legislature.—n. a body of persons or a single person with powers to enact laws.—adv. Leg′islatively.—n. Leg′islator one who makes laws: a lawgiver:—fem. Leg′islatress.—adj. Legislatō′rial of or pertaining to a legislature.—ns. Leg′islatorship; Leg′islature the body of men in a state who have the power of making laws.—Legislative assembly (see Assembly); Legislative power the power to make laws.—Class legislation legislation affecting the interests of a particular class.
Checker: Micawber
Examples
- And for this reason, I said, I shall not attempt to legislate further about them. Plato. The Republic.
- The Mexicans had been brought up ignorant of how to legislate or how to rule. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It's a tiresome business, this legislating! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Instead of clinging to the na?ve belief that Plato was legislating for all mankind, you can discuss his plans as a temporary superstructure made for an historical purpose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Inputed by Frances