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legislator|ˈlɛdʒɪsleɪtə(r)|
[a. L. lēgis-lātor, properly two words, = ‘proposer of a law’ (lēgis, genitive of lēx law + lātor, used as agent-n. to ferre to bear, carry, bring).]
One who makes laws (for a people or nation); a lawgiver; a member of a legislative body.
1605Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iii. Law 168 This Boat..saves from wrack the future Legislator [Moses]. 1607Schol. Disc. agst. Antichr. ii. v. 10 He draweth the absolute authoritie of Man, not from God as he is God, but as he is Legis-lator only. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxvi. 139 For the Legislator is he, not by whose authority the Lawes were first made, but by whose authority they now continue to be Lawes. 1711Pope Temp. Fame 74 Heroes in animated marble frown, And Legislators seem to think in stone. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 44 Laws in doubtful points are to be interpreted according to the design of the legislator. 1878Jevons Prim. Pol. Econ. 77 Legislators have long since discovered the absurdity of attempting to fix prices by law.
transf.1821Byron Two Foscari iv. i, I will be a legislator in this business. 1831Brewster Newton (1855) II. xxvii. 403 The alleged legislator of science. 1873Symonds Grk. Poets i. 29 Aristotle is the legislator for the human intellect through eighteen centuries after his death.
Hence ˈlegislatorship, the position of legislator.
1654J. Spittlehouse Vind. Fifth Monarchy Men 19 Do they not..dethrone and degrade the Lord Jesus of his Legislatorship and Judicature? a1695Ld. Halifax Cautions Choice Members in Parlt. (1699) 16 There ought to be a difference made between coming out of Pupilage, and leaping into Legislatorship. 1890J. Hatton By Order of Czar I. ii. i. 223 The principle of hereditary legislatorship. |