单词 | unlegislative |
释义 | unlegislativeadj. Not legislative; esp. not typical of or appropriate to legislation or to a legislative body. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [adjective] > legislating > not unlegislative1791 1791 J. Bentham Panopticon Postscr. ii. 487 More unlegislative minuteness, more unthrifty fixation. 1825 Raleigh Reg. & N.-Carolina Gaz. 8 Apr. This is slurred over at present in an unlegislative mode. 1855 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 28 Feb. This unlegislative attitude paralyzed, for a moment, the House. 1900 N.Y. Times 27 Dec. 5/5 Bills are prepared and introduced covering most common matters, and in a manner most unlegislative. 1971 Kingsport (Tennessee) News 26 May 15/2 The Tennessee General Assembly has been fooling around with filibusters,..and other unlegislative matters. 2015 Internat. Jrnl. Business & Managem. (Nexis) 10 Every employee team seeks to use unlegislative means and tools to achieve the objectives. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1791 |
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