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lawgiver|ˈlɔːgɪvə(r)|
[f. law n.1 + giver. Cf. Icelandic lög-gjafari, Da. lovgiver.]
One who gives, i.e. makes or promulgates, a law or code of laws; a legislator.
1382Wyclif Job xxxvi. 22 Lo! heȝe God in his strengthe, and noon to hym lic in lawe ȝiueres [Vulg. legislatoribus]. c1400Apol. Loll. 74 Not only is holi writ despicid bi þat sciens, & blasfemid, but God Himsilf þat is þe law ȝeuar. 1535Coverdale Isa. xxxiii. 22 The Lorde shalbe oure lawe geuer. 1597–8Bacon Ess., Honour (Arb.) 70 In the second place are Legislatores, Lawgiuers. 1611Bible Ps. lx. 7 Iudah is my Lawgiuer. 1689–90Temple Ess. Learning Wks. 1731 I. 292 They are content Pythagoras should pass for a Law-giver, but by no means for a Philosopher. 1786A. Gib Sacred Contempl. i. iii. 36 The Supreme Law⁓giver is entitled to the absolute subjection of his reasonable creature. 1835Thirlwall Greece I. 135 Minos appears in the..character..of a wise and just lawgiver. 1842Miall in Nonconf. II. 1 We bow to no law-giver in the church but Christ. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. VI. Index 510 [Sir Geo. Calvert] a wise and benevolent law-giver. |