1661 A. Brome Songs & Other Poems xxxv. 104 Nor is it words, or oaths, or tears, But Muskets, or full Bandoleers Have power of Legislating.

1796 Parl. Reg. 1781–96 XLV. 276 How absurd and unwise it would be to adopt a mode of legislating, which could operate only to the benefit of a twentieth part of those aggrieved.

1835 National Church Vindicated 83 Their object is the communication of the blessed means of salvation to mankind; and to what more does the legislating of a government in religious matters amount?

1858 E. Stone God's Acre iv. 97 The laity were totally excluded from any participation in the legislating of Church matters.

1952 Mod. Law Rev. 15 286 The Union Parliament has always been a replica of the United Kingdom Parliament in regard to its mode of legislating.

2011 D. O. Benjamin in S. R. Silverbug Internat. Law i. ii. 14 The legislating of international conventions through the United Nations that sought to prevent mass killing.

1659 Grand Cheat Cryed Up (single sheet) If it were so, That the Insignificant General Council of Legislating Corporals..could hitt upon the best Form of Government under Heaven,..It would be dangerous to receive it from them.

1792 World 1 Aug. Watt Tyler, you declared, is the Legislating God of your Idolatry.

1843 J. J. Macintyre Infl. of Aristocracies on Revol. of Nations ii. vii. 366 A family with about £250 a year, contributes about 25 per cent of it to augment the property of the legislating landowners and their colleagues.

1899 A. E. Garvie Ritschlian Theol. 33 He analyses the conceptions of the condemning and of the legislating conscience.

1926 G. B. Adams Council & Courts in Anglo-Norman Eng. i. 17 Upon the method of legislation, the make up of the legislating body and its proportionate share in the making of new law, the material of this period gives us very little information.

1960 Harvard Law Rev. 73 723 Another variable..is whether the right is held against a private party or the legislating authority.

1998 Guardian 14 Sept. 10/1 Ministers are still debating whether or not to include legislating powers for road-charging.