Legislator
['ledʒɪsleɪtə] or ['lɛdʒɪsletɚ]
Definition
(n.) A lawgiver; one who makes laws for a state or community; a member of a legislative body.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Lawgiver, lawmaker.
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Examples
- You, as legislator, have already selected the men; and now you shall select the women. Plato. The Republic.
- He was their judge, and in some respects their legislator in peace and their leader in war. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His ideal was not to be attained in the course of ages, but was to spring in full armour from the head of the legislator. Plato. The Republic.
- You may remember our saying that some living mind or witness of the legislator was needed in states. Plato. The Republic.
- I think not, said Glaucon; not even the Homerids themselves pretend that he was a legislator. Plato. The Republic.
- As a legislator, he affords a bright example of a genius soaring above corruption, and continually aiming at the happiness of his constituents. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Through a process of training which has already made them good citizens they are now to be made good legislators. Plato. The Republic.
- These reflections made our legislators pause, before they could decide on the laws to be put in force. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Veneering pervades the legislative lobbies, intent upon entrapping his fellow-legislators to dinner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The proprietors of land were anciently the legislators of every part of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- We cannot understand how Plato's legislators or guardians are to be fitted for their work of statesmen by the study of the five mathematical sciences. Plato. The Republic.
Editor: Rufus